Reforesting

 I remember an event from 30 years back. My cousin who was a school going kid was discussing how he got money for planting a sapling in his field. He was very happy - obviously. But what is more interesting is the fact that, the then DC was encouraging the village people to plant more trees by giving incentives.

Now is the time to bring that plan back. Each and every district must have a plan to distribute money to people who have a grown a plant for one year and that incentive can be continued for subsequent years. That way, plants do grow to be trees. 

And they will help us in bringing the rains and reducing the soil erosion and floods.

Again this incentive story can be expanded. The larger incentives and financial subsidies can be given to people who want to develop mini forest in their backyards using Japanese Miyawaki technique.

This technique can also be used to grow larger trees in city parks as it requires as less as 20 square feet space. And after 3 years, this forest will be maintenance free. 

This article explains how to grow that forest

Here is an 8 month old forest in K.R. Puram in Bangalore