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Avenue plantations lack rejuvenating lost habitats
Missing out a key component during the planning stage has left the State government’s flagship programme ‘Telanganaku Haritha Haram’ (THH) not able to address a troubling issue - monkey menace being faced by residents in the peripheral areas in the urban areas like twin cities, Warangal, Karimnagar, and others in the State.
Hyderabad: Missing out a key component during the planning stage has left the State government’s flagship programme ‘Telanganaku Haritha Haram’ (THH) not able to address a troubling issue - monkey menace being faced by residents in the peripheral areas in the urban areas like twin cities, Warangal, Karimnagar, and others in the State.
According to sources, most of the avenue plantations taken up on both sides of the highways on the outskirts were meant to make everything around to look beautiful. The distance between two plants is not even 8 to 9 metres. This was to make the canopy to look dense by planting trees like Kanuga and the like.
Speaking to The Hans India, a senior official from the forest department said that the species of plants chosen for the avenue plantation under THH, covering several kilometres, looks beautiful with flowers in different colours and shades. But, most of these plants are prone to a heavy shedding of leaves during the summer. Some species like Kanga could provide shade.
But, they cannot withstand the heavy winds and rains like fruit bearing and other traditional varieties. The species planted in THH "neither gives shade to neither people nor bear fruits for birds and animals to survive. And, only pleases the eyes when grown along the roads,” he added.
Each of the plants under THH incurs an investment of about Rs 300 to Rs 500 under the livelihood creation programme to ensure their survival and maintenance. Besides, there need to be given periodical pruning of canopy. Yet, it would not long be lost for more than about 25 years and they will hardly have any wood value, he said. In some places, fruit-bearing trees had been distributed to the institutions like individuals, schools and the like. But, they are facing a tough time for survival.
It was against this backdrop that the THH was hoped to bring some respite to address the problem of monkey menace. The problem is aggravated due to distributing the habitat of monkeys and birds by cutting down the trees for road expansion, ORR, and other infrastructure projects.
However, lack of rejuvenation of the old habitats by planting fruit-bearing trees as part of the avenue plantation left the problem remained unaddressed, the sources added.
