VIZAG INDUSTRIAL NEWS

Despite the threat of Corona virus, selectedemployees of VSEZ including DC, VSEZ, ensured to celebrate the “Internationalday of Forests 2020” earlier known as World Forestry Day,by planting few saplings of Palms symbolically, in the premises of VSEZ LargeVehicle parking area, without attracting big crowd and taking all precautionsto fight the deadly Corona Virus. Revealing this fact to the media A Rama Mohan Reddy, Development Commissioner,SEZ at Duvvada, Visakhapatnam, said, in the last years incident, the wholecountry as well as the world used to Celebrate world Forestry Day on this daywith much fanfare, but now, they forgot, due to the pandemic Corona.  Mr. Reddy said that India’s forests are everincreasing and every citizen of the country should contribute his part byplanting few plants of his choice, especially the medicinal plants.  Neem could be the best plant to fightcontagious diseases in the region, which can tolerate lot of drought conditionstoo said Mr. Reddy who is an Indian Forest Service officer too.

Indias State of ForestReport 2019:            As perthe report releasedonDecember 30, 2019, forest cover in India has increased by 5,188 square km inthe last two years, said Reddy. It also mentioned in the report that this greenarea covers about 25% of the total geographic area of the country.India Stateof Forest Report 2019 is prepared by Forest Survey of India (FSI), ona biannualbasis. The report is prepared after mapping of forests and trees throughsatellite. According to the report, the forest area has increased by 3976kilometers and the area of trees by 1212 square kilometres in last two years.

Increase of forest coverin AP

According to the report,three states have shown an increase in the forest area viz., Karnataka (1025km), Andhra Pradesh (990 km) and Kerala (823 km), which has placed AP in secondposition in terms of increase in forest cover. Thus, every citizen of AP and Govt offices, need to add few trees everyyear in their private lands to fight the climate change, stop global warmingand resist natural calamities like Viruses etc., and neem could be the best hesays.  In vsez premises we have addedPlumeria garden, sandal wood garden and many other groves to increase the greencover says Reddy.