<p class="wp-block-paragraph">The Federal University
of Agriculture (FUNAAB), has embarked on urban forestation programme with a
view to reducing the challenges to the barest minimum. ;</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">As a way of tackling
the bedeviling challenges and rejuvenating the dwindling economic system,
students of the institution, in their large number at the weekend took to the
streets of Abeokuta, the State capital to plant seedlings in different houses
while sensitising the people on the importance of planting trees.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Trees planted
included; Masquerade trees, Malina, Tick tree among others.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">The students, mainly
of the department of Forestry and Wildlife Management of the Institution had
earlier embarked on rural forestry  ;where countless tress were planted in
different rural communities.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">The Acting Head of The
Department, Dr Oladapo Odukoya who spoke to Journalists on the sideline of the
exercise maintained that the bothering issue of global warming had gotten to
the attention of the institution, hence the need for the exercise.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">He regretted that
global warming had had a damaging effect on the country&#8217;s economy, adding that
the institution could no longer fold harm until the situation gets out of hand.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">His words
&#8220;Presently, there is a problem of global warming. The various problem
global warming is causing include flooding; when a little rain falls everywhere
becomes flooded, these are parts of the problems. Also the high level of carbon
dioxide in the atmosphere which has resulted in high heat. The trees will
 ;provide shade against sun in the afternoon.&#8221;</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Odukoya who supervised
the exercise  ;boasted that the trees also have high economic values,
assuring that people could eat or sell the fruits gotten from the fruit tree
and they  ;harvest the leaves for many other purposes.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">He stressed &#8220;It
is more of urban forestry. It&#8217;s about sensitising the people about the
importance of planting trees in their homes, having gardens in front of the
house for various purposes. In time past, you will hardly see a house without
tress in front of it but the practice is no more&#8221;.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">&#8220;This our own
community development programme. We have done it in the rural areas before so
we decided to bring it to the urban. In the next three or four years we will
come back and access the whole areas to see whether we have achieve success.
Its our own way in contributing to the development of the country, he
said&#8221;</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">The Representative of
the the students, Michael Oluwadamilola said &#8220;We have observed that
economic global warming is serious, the more you cut the plants the more you
kill mankind and also you discover that this day hit get so intense that we
need trees around us to give us fresh air. For the community, we had over 70
plants we have been able to plants all of them. What we are doing now is urban
forestation.&#8221;</p>

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