The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has decided to develop 14 new urban forest using the Miyawaki technique across mumbai by Diwali this year.
It is pertinent to note that the civic body on Monday, August 28, launched a drive of planting 10,264 saplings in Chembur, where one of the 14 forests will come up.
It gave a further push to the Miyawaki urban forestation technique and BMC’s ongoing afforestation spree.
Official stated that Chembur’s Sharad Narayan Acharya Park was an uneven plot, which we levelled with mud and prepared the soil for planting saplings. Besides undertaking the plantation drive, BMC are planning to carve out a pathway within the forest as well as put some benches with an aim to give visitors a feel of being amid a natural forest.
Indigenous species of 48 varieties, including bamboo, guava, tamarind, amla, sheesham among many others are slated to be planted over an area sprawled across 2,500 square metres. The plantation of saplings at the park will be completed over a course of the next eight days.
For those unversed, nearly 64 mini forests have already been developed under the Urban Forest project launched by the civic body on January 26, 2020. According to senior civic officials, 1,100 green plots were identified across Mumbai, of which 64 plots were earmarked in 2020 for the development of urban forests using the Miyawaki methodology.
While the city’s first ever Miyawaki forest had been developed by the BMC at Chembur’s Bhakti park, the biggest Miyawaki plantation drive was carried out at Chandivali’s Nahar Amrut Shakti Udyan, wherein over 41,000 saplings were planted over 13 acres.
Conceptualised by Japanese botanist Akira Miyawaki in the early 1970s, the Miyawaki technique of plantation was developed to restore indigenous ecosystems whereby native trees are densely planted within small patches.
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