By Ibraheem Dooba
Ethiopia set a record in August 2019 by planting 350 million trees in 12 hours, surpassing India’s previous record of 50 million trees in 24 hours.
Ethiopia then broke its own record in July of 2023 when 34 million Ethiopians planted 560 million trees in one day!
We want to break this record in Nigeria by planting 1 billion trees in 12 hours. That’s five trees for every Nigerian citizen. With this bold step, we can solve several problems at once.
To achieve this ambitious goal, we’ve set a target date of June 2026 (two years from now), and preparations are already underway as of July 25, 2024.
We’ve already dispatched 150,000 seeds, which will grow into trees producing 20,000 seeds each.
As a result, we only need to plant 50,000 trees to yield 1 billion seeds. However, our goal is to plant 300,000 trees across Nigeria, with a focus on Northern Nigeria.
In doing that, we’ll also be providing solutions to three environmental and social problems which have remained unsolved for decades.
Specifically, we aim to address the long-standing issues of farmer-herder conflicts, desertification, and poor soil quality.
Solving these problems will save the nation billions of naira annually and improve the productivity of our farmers and the security of our people.
That’s why we’ve chosen to plant leucaena (pronounced Lucina) which benefits farmers, herders and the environment.
For example, it increases milk production by 20% and according to FAO, it increases the yield of cash crops like maize because Leucaena is an ever-green legume that deposits up to 10 bags of NPK (500KG) per hectare.
It’s also good for the environment because it’s drought tolerant, controls erosion and fights desertification.
So far, 200MillionTrees has partnered with the Foundation for Refugees Economic Empowerment (F.R.E.E) which has used its large network to bring Emirs (five so far), farmers and Fulani leaders on board.
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PPS: Leucaena has some anti-nutritional properties like mimosine. So contact us or your vet before you feed it to your animals.
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