The Vadodara Municipal Corporation announced that they would be taking up an afforestation drive to plant roughly 55,000 trees in each of 75 pre-determined plots. As per the statement, different kinds of green spaces would be erected in different city zones, including Nakshatra and Miyawaki types of forestations. The corporation, with a 1,595 crore grant for the project, aims to achieve its target by 2024/25. Currently, VMC has undertaken plantation by the Miyawaki technique at the Rajiv Nagar Sewage Treatment Plant. Similarly, in each of the four zones, one portion is slated to be allocated to plantation by the Miyawaki technique; VMC surveyed the plots for the same. The Miyawaki technique, coined by Akira Miyawaki from Japan, is an innovative method to raise forests and green spaces. As per renowned botanists, the method works best to cultivate forests in a short period. While a forest would take 200-300 years to grow conventionally, under Miyawaki, it would take roughly 10-20 year

Author-Raveena