Seriki Adinoyi
Green Sahara Farms Limited based in Jos, Plateau State, in collaboration with an international partner, Forest Action based in France, is set to reforest the state and other North-central states by planting 25 million trees.
Disclosing this in Jos during a stakeholders’ meeting, the General Manager of Green Sahara, Mr. Rayandy Chuwang, said the meeting was part of advocacy and sensitisation ahead of the reforestation so as to bring out the grey areas as well as the productive nature of the scheme.
Chuwang said the project would begin in July this year, and it’s expected to last for two years, during which a total of 250,000 trees of different species will be integrated.
Les Éclaireurs : Sahara vert & Trafic cellulaire sur Auvio
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Here are some of the most interesting research papers to have appeared in top science journals last week.
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Fossil plant study
About 14,500 to 5,000 years ago, North Africa was green with vegetation and the period is known as the Green Sahara or African Humid Period. Until now, researchers have assumed that the rain was brought by an enhanced summer monsoon. Now, a study of pollen and leaf waxes extracted from sediments have shown that there were two monsoon systems. We have winter rain on the northern margin of the Sahara, the monsoon on the southern margin, and between the two areas an overlap of the two rain systems which provides rains there during both summer and winter, albeit rather sparsely, explains first author Rachid Cheddadi in a release.