ISTANBUL, Nov 12 (NNN-ANADOLU) – Millions of Turks on Monday, simultaneously planted 11 million saplings across the country, as part of a mass-planting campaign launched by the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The campaign, dubbed “Breath Into the Future,” aims at contributing to agriculture, while establishing a greener landscape for the next generations, Minister Bekir Pakdemirli said, in a statement posted online.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“We ensured that 11 million saplings meet the soil in three hours, at 2,023 different points, in 81 provinces,” he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Planting started precisely at 11:11 local time, with a view to carrying Turkey into the Guinness Book of Records, by planting the highest number of saplings in an hour and creating the largest photo album of the event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Despite the initial target of 11 million, nearly 14 million saplings were adopted for the campaign, with 212,000 in Istanbul, Turkey’s biggest city, and nearly 340,000 in the capital, Ankara.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Last week, Turkish President, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, declared Nov 11, National Forestation Day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Erdogan Atmis, a forestry specialist, was quoted as saying by Birgun, an online news portal, that, replacing a destroyed ecosystem, formed in over millions of years, with unknown seeds, is no more than a “simple deception.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In his view, a forest ecosystem will not be formed immediately, but takes at least 50 years, before it can be called a forest.– NNN-ANADOLU <\/p>\n\n\n\n
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