Republic of Congo to launch reforestation program
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Xinhua, October 31, 2011
The Republic of Congo's President Denis Sassou Nguesso will on Nov. 6 launch the National Reforestation Program (PNAR) in the northern district of Brazzaville, the Central African country's Forestry Ministry has said.
The program will cost 1,200 billion FCFA (2.5 billion U. S. dollars) to realize a million hectares of forest plantations, an official of the ministry told Xinhua on Friday.
The PNRA program will be launched on the "Day of the Tree", which is always celebrated on Nov. 6 of each year in the Republic of Congo.
This year will see the day's 25th edition to be marked under the theme "Let us plant trees for our future".
On the occasion, 166,000 trees of different types will be planted on a land measuring 100 hectares on a rehabilitated site at Ignie, a suburb which is 45 km north of Brazzaville.
The Republic of Congo currently has 22 million hectares of forests. Wood is the country's second income earner after oil.
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