JPM to see launch of key forest plantation
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JPM to see launch of key forest plantation
PRESIDENT John Magufuli is today scheduled to launch the government’s second largest forest plantation in Chato District, Geita Region.
PRESIDENT John Magufuli.
Briefing reporters on the event here yesterday, Regional Commissioner Robert Gabriel said that the tree farm located at Butengo village sits on 69,000 hectors of land, or 690 square kilometers.
This makes it second only to Sao Hill plantation in Mafinga, Iringa Region which occupies 135,900 hectors of land, 47,900 of which is natural forest, with the forest plantation covering some 88,000 hectors.
Established in the 2017/18 financial year, Chato Forest is 23rd government-owned forests managed by the Tanzania Forest Service (TFS).