The horticulture department, Udham Singh Nagar, is going to develop fruit orchards in 133 hectare land this year under different schemes. Side by side, the district horticulture department has also set a target of distribution of 1,24,619 fruit plants this season under different schemes.
Thus over 50 per cent of the fruit plants out of the target of distributing 1,24,619 fruit plants have already been distributed among the people, said the district horticulture department officials. The rest would be distributed soon, they added.
Mention worthy, in a bid to promote greenery, the State Government has also integrated the environment conservation campaign with
Uttarakhand’s culture. Celebrations of the Harela festival by way of plantation of trees on a mass scale from July 10 to July 18 this year can be cited as an instance. The traditional Harela festival was integrated with the ongoing ‘my tree, my money’ programme to encourage the people to promote greenery.