Turkey: 273 million saplings were produced for the green homeland

In order to erase the traces of forest fires occurring throughout Turkey and to regenerate forest areas with special afforestation techniques, feverish work continues in the forest nurseries of the General Directorate of Forestry (OGM). The saplings, which are grown like a baby by paying attention to the heat, humidity and fertilizer balance in the nurseries, are planted all over the country both in areas damaged by forest fires and in forested areas. A THOUSAND DIFFERENT SPECIES ARE GROWED Saplings, which are indispensable for afforestation, are coniferous such as pine, cedar, spruce, juniper, cypress; leafy such as oak, beech, maple, linden, chestnut, ash, sycamore; It is grown in income-generating species such as almonds, walnuts, olives, hawthorn, jujube, carob, oleaster, rosehip. In addition to plants with medicinal aromatic properties such as lavender, sage, thyme, shrubs such as rose, fire thorn, laurel, oleander, taflan, boxwood, which are also used as ornamental plants, ...