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2025: sixteen camps in Braj and Bareilly

The 2025 season of the Vriksh Mitra–Gram Mitra Abhiyan held sixteen camps between June and October — fifteen in Mathura and Vrindavan and one for a thousand farmers in Bareilly.

The first camp of the 2025 season at Nagla Papri, Mahavan, 24 June 2025

The 2025 season began a month before its first camp. In April and May, Khushhali's workers went village to village in Mathura and Vrindavan, sitting with farming families to find out where fruit trees could be planted in the coming monsoon and which fruits they wanted.

The first camp was held on 24 June at Pandit Jairam H.S.S. School in Nagla Papri, Mahavan, for 382 farmers. Over the next four months the campaign moved through Mavli Bangar, Badi Atas in Vrindavan, Dalauta, Raya, Manoharpur, Saunkh, Visawali, Gudera, Govardhan, Aring and Farah — fifteen camps in Braj, each putting 4,000 fruit saplings of amla, guava, lemon, pomegranate, bel, mango and Thai apple ber into farmers' hands.

On 14 September the thirteenth camp was held in Bareilly, where the campaign began fifteen years earlier: 7,400 saplings for 900 farmers at Silver Law College, with Uttar Pradesh's Forest and Environment Minister as chief guest. The last camps, in Farah block in October, closed the season.

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