Vriksh Mitra–Gram Mitra Abhiyan 2025, Braj and Bareilly

Preparations for the 2025 season began in April, when volunteers spent a month going village to village in Mathura and Vrindavan to survey where fruit trees could be planted. The camps began on 24 June and ran into October. Each farmer received ten saplings — Pratapgarh amla (N-7), L-49 guava, grafted lemon, Kandhari pomegranate and grafted bel or mango, and from late July Thai apple ber.

Camps in Braj

• 24 June: Pandit Jairam H.S.S. School, Nagla Papri, Mahavan — 382 farmers.
• 29 June: Prachin Shri Hanuman Mandir, Mavli Bangar — 357 farmers and 38 more afterwards.
• 6 July: Pt. Shri Hukum Singh Inter College, Badi Atas, Vrindavan — 374 farmers.
• 20 July: Shri Krishna Inter College, Dalauta — 382 farmers.
• 25 July: S.S.D. Public School, Raya — 358 farmers.
• 31 July: Bauhre Vijendra Singh Higher Secondary School, Manoharpur, Mahavan — 388 farmers.
• 8 August: Jaswant Inter College, Faudar Magaurra, Saunkh — 392 farmers.
• 17 August: Maa Raghuveeri Devi Inter College, Visawali, Raya — 383 farmers.
• 22 August: Khere Wali Mata Mandir, Arkheda, Gudera, Raya — 373 farmers.
• 31 August: G.M. Nursing Paramedical College, Neemgaon Kunjera, Govardhan — 357 farmers.
• 7 September: Adarsh Janta Inter College, Aring, Govardhan — 391 farmers, with Govardhan MLA Shri Meghshyam as chief guest.
• 2 October: Shri Sarveshwar Higher Secondary School, Koh, Farah — 374 farmers.
• 14 October: Farah block, with Shri Sonpal of Deendayal Dham presiding — 372 farmers.
• October: Ram Dulari Inter College, Farah — 396 farmers.

The list records fourteen of the fifteen Braj camps (the fourth, in July, is not in our records); each distributed 4,000 fruit saplings.

Bareilly, 14 September

The thirteenth camp of the season brought the campaign home to Bareilly. At Silver Law College on the Pilibhit Road, 1,000 farmers of Bareilly district gathered, and 900 of them received eight or nine saplings each — 7,400 trees of mango, guava, pomegranate, orange, mosambi, bel, jamun, lemon, pear, peach and jackfruit. The chief guest, Dr Arun Kumar Saxena, Uttar Pradesh's Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Forest and Environment, told the farmers that wherever there is a field boundary there should be a tree. Bareilly Cantt MLA Shri Sanjeev Agarwal and Nawabganj MLA Dr M.P. Arya were special guests, and Dr Yogesh Mishra, former principal of the Government Ayurvedic College, Bareilly, was the main speaker.