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Marking World Environment Day, Sadhguru’s Cauvery Calling question connected June 4 launched its yearly plantation thrust crossed Tamil Nadu, mounting a people of planting 1.2 crore saplings during 2026-27. The run was inaugurated simultaneously astatine implicit 140 locations crossed the State.
The question facilitated the planting of 13.4 crore trees truthful acold and supported astir 2.6 lakh farmers successful adopting tree-based agriculture income, according to a release. For the existent year, Coimbatore territory has been assigned a people of 8 lakh saplings, portion Tiruppur territory has been allotted 2.75 lakh saplings. The district-level motorboat events were held astatine the Adiyogi premises, Pollachi and Mettupalayam.
At the Adiyogi event, Kavundampalayam MLA Kanimozhi Santhosh, Vellingiri Farmer Producer Company manager Kittusamy and Palamalai Farmer Producer Company manager Vijayakumar inaugurated the plantation drive. At Pollachi, erstwhile MLA M. Shanmugam, Pollachi Chamber of Commerce president A. Muthusamy and Mariamman Farmer Producer Company manager A. Balu launched the territory run by planting saplings.
As portion of the campaign, implicit 1 lakh saplings were planted connected farmlands crossed 317 acres, marking the opening of tree-based agriculture initiatives successful antithetic districts. MLAs, territory officials and different dignitaries participated successful the district-level programmes. The plantation thrust is aligned with this year’s World Environment Day theme, “Inspired by Nature. For Climate. For Our Future.”
Under the tree-based agriculture model, commercially invaluable timber taxon are cultivated alongside accepted crops to amended ungraded fertility, h2o retention, biodiversity and workplace income. Farmers are fixed subsidised saplings of teak, reddish sandalwood, sandalwood, vengai, malai vembu, mahogany and rosewood, too crops specified arsenic pepper, avocado and nutmeg suitable for the plains.
