Forty thousand bel saplings for Banaras
The 2019 season of the campaign began on 14 July in Jayapur, Banaras, with a target of 40,000 bel saplings for the farming families of the district.
The bel tree is sacred in Banaras, and its fruit is food and medicine. In 2019 the Vriksh Mitra–Gram Mitra Abhiyan set out to plant 40,000 bel saplings with the farming families of the district.
The season began on 14 July 2019 in Jayapur village, where 640 farming families and the village school received 4,000 bel saplings. On 18 July more than 600 families of Shahabad Jalan received 3,000 more. By 11 August, a month into the drive, six programmes had distributed more than 25,000 saplings and over 10,000 farming families had benefited, with the rest of the season still to come.
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