BOOP marks second tree-planting week
Benso (C/R), June 9, GNA - Management and staff of the Benso
Oil
Palm Plantation (BOPP) and school children within the
catchments area
of the company last year planted 408 tree seedlings.
The tree species planted included teak, militia and neem.
Mr Neneyo Mate-Korle, Managing Director of BOPP, said this
at the
launch of this year's tree planting week of the company
under the
theme, "your planet needs you. Unite to combat climate
change" at
Benso at the weekend.
He said this year's tree planting week was not limited to
the
estate of the company but also extended to Benso and Adum
Banso.
Mr Mate-Korle said this was to create environmental
awareness in
the communities and to promote BOPP's corporate social
responsibility.
He said about 800 trees are to be planted this year by
visitors,
employee, contractors, communities and school children.
The Managing Director said employees who took good care of
the
trees planted last year are to be rewarded to motivate other
employees to follow their good
example.
He said a herbal arboretum to preserve both foreign and
local
medicinal plant species had also been started and the
Forestry
Commission would be contacted to provide assistance.
Mr Mate-Korle said an out-grower scheme in rubber
cultivation
would come into fruition by 2015.
The rubber trees are to serve as a buffer around houses and
residential areas of the company to keep farming practices
on BOPP's
palm trees from harming residents on the estate and over the
last
three years the company had planted more than 3,000 trees.
Mr J.H. Darko, Wassa Mpohor East District Assistant Manager
of
the Forestry Services Division, said one of the effective
ways of
combating climate change was to embark on serious tree
planting.
He appealed to the people to embark on tree planting and to
nurture the seedlings to maturity.
The District Chief Executive of the Twifo-Hemang Lower
Denkyira,
Mr Foster Josepgh Andoh and the Estate manager of the Twifo
Oil PalmPlantation, Mr Emmanuel Ahiable, took part in a
similar exercise
organized by the Management of the Company at Twifo
Ntafrewaso in the Central Region.
GNA
