Spring is the season for tree planting.

(Baonghean.vn) - In the Spring of the year Canh Ty (1960), while the country was in a long-term resistance war, Uncle Ho still launched the Tree Planting Festival to keep the country green. Following Uncle Ho's words, 52 springs have passed, people across the country, from old to young, from the highlands to the lowlands, are all excited about the Tree Planting Festival.

With efforts and determination, over the past years, Nghe An has planted millions of trees, contributing to beautifying the country. This Spring of the Year of the Dragon, the children of Nghe An continue to nurture green shoots on the land of storms and scorching sun, to respond to the Tree Planting Festival to forever remember Uncle Ho.

At 9:00 a.m. on January 30, 2012 (the morning of the 8th day of the lunar calendar), Nghia Dan was still full of spring colors, the weather was cold but thousands of people gathered at the district center to attend the launching ceremony of "Tet tree planting to forever remember Uncle Ho". After the drum beat to "open" the Tet tree planting festival by comrade Phan Dinh Trac, member of the Party Central Committee - Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, thousands of people spread out to the streets to plant trees. The Vice Chairmen of the Provincial People's Committee, representatives of departments, branches and sectors directly planted souvenir trees along the road leading to the center of the administrative area of ​​Nghia Dan district.

Tran Van Nam - grade 10, student of Nghia Dan 1-5 High School is excitedly planting trees: "This is the first tree planting festival that I have participated in, it is very meaningful, because when the trees grow tall, they will provide shade and beautify the central area of ​​​​the district". Teacher Luu Cong Linh - Principal of Nghia Dan 1-5 High School is watering the trees and said: This morning, the school mobilized over 1,500 students to wear costumes and participate in the tree planting festival. After planting the trees, the students have the task of watering and building protective fences, then continue to plant trees in the school area, striving to have a green - clean - beautiful campus.

Mr. Nguyen Tien Ngoc - an officer of the Statistics Department of Nghia Dan District People's Committee, is gently lifting the sapling into the hole, then carefully using his hands to pile the soil, saying: "We have to lift it gently to protect the base of the tree before putting it into the planting hole so that the tree can survive". According to Mr. Ngoc, each officer of the District People's Committee is assigned to plant 1 tree. To ensure the tree grows well, the staff in the department go find loose alluvial soil to pour into the planting hole to provide enough nutrients for the tree.

Mr. Le Trung Tam - Head of the Department of Agriculture of Nghia Dan district said: The district People's Committee has selected quality shade tree varieties such as acacia, oil fruit, and black star. By 12 noon on January 30, all departments and branches of the district had planted 700 trees of all kinds and they were all carefully fenced and protected. The planting locations and tree varieties are suitable for ecological conditions in the direction of diversification, prioritizing shade trees.

In the context of the district having just been split and the infrastructure being newly built, the fact that the Provincial People's Committee chose this location as the "Launching Ceremony of the Tree Planting Festival to forever remember Uncle Ho" has great significance for the district. Planting more trees will make the urban area of ​​Nghia Dan green - clean - beautiful, the air fresh and is the driving force for the district to plant over 700 hectares of raw material forests in 2012, concentrated in the communes of Nghia Yen, Nghia Loc, Nghia Lac...

After the launching ceremony, the district Department of Education and Training will coordinate with communes and schools to plant trees in school grounds. The People's Committee of Nghia Dan district has directed mineral exploitation sites to focus on planting trees to reduce environmental pollution in residential areas... The launching ceremony of the Tree Planting Festival this year is the beginning of a movement to plant over 12,000 scattered trees, produce over 30 million seedlings and effectively implement the province's 2012 forest protection and development plan. After the launching ceremony, Nghe An province will start planting spring raw material forests on over 5,000 hectares.

Van Truong