A 100-acre plantation established with the cash contribution of the Myanmar Gems and Jewelry Entrepreneurs Association for supporting ecosystem was inaugurated at Ngalaik forest reserve in Nay Pyi Taw yesterday.

Union Minister for Natural Resources and Environmental Conservation U Ohn Win, Deputy Minister, chair of Myanmar Gems and Jewelry Entrepreneurs Association and Nay Pyi Taw Council member formally opened the plantations and sprinkled scented water. A director of the Forest Department explained salient points of the 100-acre plantation, saying that personnel of the department of the Nay Pyi Taw Council areas are giving close care and supervision for the plantation. The ecosystem supportive plantation has 97 hardwood trees species including teak, pyingato, padauk, tamalan, thingan, ingyi and thitya. The 100-acres plantation has a total of 60,700 trees - 12,100 on 6 feet by 6 feet plots on 10 acres of land, and 48,600 on 9 feet by 9 feet plots on 90 acres.

The Union Minister and party looked around the plantation.

They then went to China-Myanmar friendship forest ecological plantation in Taungdwingyo Township.

MNA

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(Translated by TMT)

Ref; The Global New Light of Myanmar