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Van Mahotsav is an annual tree-planting
festival in India. This movement was initiated in the year 1950 by
India's Union Minister for Agriculture, Kulapati Dr.K M Munshi.
Van Mahotsav, a week long festival of tree planting is organised every year in the month of July, across India when millions of trees are planted. As the monsoon progresses across the Gangetic plains, Van Mahotsav is celebrated in some parts in early July, in others, in August, and still further west, even in September.
The main purpose for planting the trees during Van Mahotsav was to:
•Increase awareness about trees and love of trees amongst the people.
•Help soil conservation and arrest deterioration of soil fertility.
•Popularize the planting and tending of trees in farms, villages, municipal and public lands for their aesthetic, economic and protective needs.
•Provide fuel and thus release cow dung for use as manure.
•Increase production of fruits and add to the potential food resources of the country.
•Help creation of shelter-belts around agricultural fields to increase their productivity.
•Provide fodder leaves for cattle to relieve intensity of grazing over reserved forests.
•Provide shade and ornamental trees for the landscape.
• Provide small poles and timber for agricultural implements, house construction and fencing.
Van Mahotsav, a week long festival of tree planting is organised every year in the month of July, across India when millions of trees are planted. As the monsoon progresses across the Gangetic plains, Van Mahotsav is celebrated in some parts in early July, in others, in August, and still further west, even in September.
The main purpose for planting the trees during Van Mahotsav was to:
•Increase awareness about trees and love of trees amongst the people.
•Help soil conservation and arrest deterioration of soil fertility.
•Popularize the planting and tending of trees in farms, villages, municipal and public lands for their aesthetic, economic and protective needs.
•Provide fuel and thus release cow dung for use as manure.
•Increase production of fruits and add to the potential food resources of the country.
•Help creation of shelter-belts around agricultural fields to increase their productivity.
•Provide fodder leaves for cattle to relieve intensity of grazing over reserved forests.
•Provide shade and ornamental trees for the landscape.
• Provide small poles and timber for agricultural implements, house construction and fencing.
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