Ethiopia’s Green Legacy initiative is a good response to the worrying global climate change and will also help the country to ensure its food security, the Indian industry manager Bhavesh Chandaria said.
The General Manager of Ethiopian Steel PLC, who relates his “genuine love for Ethiopia” back to the acquaintance of his relative and Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia in London, has rich experience about Africa where he has been working for many years.
According to him, the Green Legacy initiative “is a very generous job to our planet” and laudable.
“I think this green initiative is not only (useful) for Africa, but also very benign and very generous to planet Earth. We (Africans) have not polluted the planet even a fraction of what Europe and North America have done. So we are having a moral high ground on that.”
Therefore, Ethiopia’s initiative is an exemplary move for green resilient growth, Chandaria underscored.
In Ethiopia, 25 billion tree seedlings have been planted during a span of four years through the Green Legacy initiative which is rooted in a vision of building a green climate resilient Ethiopia.
The country is also going to plant another 25 billion tree seedlings in the second phase of the Green Legacy Initiative launched last month by Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, following the successful implementation of the first phase.
Chandaria noted that the Green Legacy is a powerful initiative that Ethiopia is performing with an ambitious number of tree seedlings.
“On a macro level, everybody should plant trees. It needs to plant and make the trees grow and survive. So, we need to owe this to the planet. We are doing an amazing job here in Ethiopia. Ethiopia has set a very ambitious numbers in planting billions of tree seedlings and they (Ethiopians) are doing it. I want to see this continue.”
Chandaria further suggested that every person plant a number of trees that is equal to the age of the person.
“I am 49 and I must plant 49 trees this year. Because we need to overtake sustainability,” he said.
The share of seedlings for fruit trees is also substantially higher in the Green Legacy program this year, it was learned.
Chandaria urged Ethiopia the planting of fruit trees and vegetables through its massive campaign.
Source: Ethiopian News Agency