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‘Tree planting can generate N1trn yearly’
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He disclosing this to Business Day at the first national tree planting workshop held at Ijebu-Ode in Ogun State.
Rodipe organiser of the programme says, the benefits of tree planting are multiple. Apart from the economic benefits, there are also the issues of evironmental sustainability, forest conservation and the habitat.
“Malaysia is making well over $10.75-billion from tree planting and since Nigeria is six times bigger than Malaysia it means Nigeria can make about N1-trillion if everybody knows the relevance of planting trees in the country.We can get fabulous wealth, like Malaysia is doing, if only the citizens would plant millions of trees yearly and by careful husbandry of our forest.”
Rodipe who currently has 500,000 trees second after former president Olusegun Obasanjo with the highest of 2.5 million teak trees in the country says:
“The over dependency on nature’s regeneration of trees, ineffective, inconsistent afforestation programmes, government policies and the speculative nature of timber trade in Nigeria cannot sustain the ongoing massive tree cutting, except urgent attention is given to mass re-afforestation by government, and mass tree planting and private sector intervention in afforestation.
“We may increase the trend of global warming and result to round log timber importation, if urgent attention is not given to the matter of tree planting nationwide as the development of the timber industry in tropical countries has evolved over the years with the international community and environmentalists waging control wars both economically and politically against unsustainable forest managemnt,” Rodipe said.
Speaking on the way forward, he said, “It is an accepted fact now that there is a serious imbalance between wood supply and demand in the country.”
Rodipe organiser of the programme says, the benefits of tree planting are multiple. Apart from the economic benefits, there are also the issues of evironmental sustainability, forest conservation and the habitat.
“Malaysia is making well over $10.75-billion from tree planting and since Nigeria is six times bigger than Malaysia it means Nigeria can make about N1-trillion if everybody knows the relevance of planting trees in the country.We can get fabulous wealth, like Malaysia is doing, if only the citizens would plant millions of trees yearly and by careful husbandry of our forest.”
Rodipe who currently has 500,000 trees second after former president Olusegun Obasanjo with the highest of 2.5 million teak trees in the country says:
“The over dependency on nature’s regeneration of trees, ineffective, inconsistent afforestation programmes, government policies and the speculative nature of timber trade in Nigeria cannot sustain the ongoing massive tree cutting, except urgent attention is given to mass re-afforestation by government, and mass tree planting and private sector intervention in afforestation.
“We may increase the trend of global warming and result to round log timber importation, if urgent attention is not given to the matter of tree planting nationwide as the development of the timber industry in tropical countries has evolved over the years with the international community and environmentalists waging control wars both economically and politically against unsustainable forest managemnt,” Rodipe said.
Speaking on the way forward, he said, “It is an accepted fact now that there is a serious imbalance between wood supply and demand in the country.”
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