The city is all set to get greener. The Noida Authority has set a target of adding nearly 500 acres of green cover to the city in the current financial year.

The first-of-its-kind survey, to ascertain the total number of trees and their varieties in Panchkula.

NOIDA: To maintain green cover and ensure public participation, the administration has started trees census in Noida.

JAMMU: Minister for Ecology, Environment and Forests, Mian Altaf Ahmed today attended the 62nd Van-Mahoutsav organized by Social Forestry Department in the premises of Govt. Polytechnic College Jammu.

An experiment on the influence of tree cover on physical properties of soil was carried out at Instructional Farm, ASPEE College of Horticulture and Forestry, Navsari (Gujarat) under twelve-years old plantation during the year 2002-2003. The soil samples were collected from three depths (0-30, 30-60, 60-90 cm).