Nigeria: Climate Change - Lagos Targets 230,000 Trees for Agroforestry in 9 Months

23 March 2020

Lagos State Government has unveiled plan to plant at least 230,000 trees within the next nine months even as its urged residents to imbibe a clean, improved and enhanced positive approach to a climate-friendly environment in order to encourage agroforestry.

The Special Adviser to State Governor on Agriculture, Miss. Abisola Olusanya who disclosed this at the weekend on the occasion to mark the Year 2020 International Day of Forest, explained that those measures became imperative in order to discourage tree felling as well as prevent flooding in the state.

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