(MENAFN - Khaleej Times) The Sharjah Municipality launched an initiative to distribute agricultural seedlings as part of its participation in the 41st Afforestation Week, in order to strengthen its role in spreading the green patch and planting trees to emphasise its importance.
Thabet Al Tarifi, director-general of Sharjah Municipality, stressed that the municipality's participation in the activities of the afforestation week reflects its tangible role and its keenness to enhance environmental awareness and encourage and pay attention to agriculture.
Al Tarifi pointed out that the municipality launched an initiative to distribute agricultural seedlings to citizens according to a set of preventive and precautionary measures, as it distributed them after performing the necessary sterilisation operations before handing them over to citizens, with the commitment of employees to wear a face mask and gloves and adhere to social distancing.