Rapid plantation best way to fight pollution: PM

F.P. Report

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan on Saturday said plantation through rapid growth modes such as Japan’s Miyawaki technique was the best way to fight pollution.

The Prime Minister, who started the spring plantation drive a day earlier, said his government had launched urban forestry on lines of Japanese method, having 10 times faster growth results.

“I have launched urban forestry on the lines of Miyawaki technique in Japan where the trees grow 10 times faster and 30 times denser and is the best way to fight pollution,” the Prime Minister tweeted.

The PM mentioned that 50 sites in Lahore had been chosen for Miyawaki mode with first experiment carried out at Liberty roundabout last year.

He also shared a before and after photograph of the roundabout, with striking difference between the earlier barren and later dense plantation in a year.