Fertility of 17.14 lakh hectares has been improved and more than 65 lakh fruit saplings planted in Madhya Pradesh as part of the Nandan Falodyan Sub-Scheme under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme.

''The planting has been undertaken over 23,578 hectares,'' Panchayat and Rural Development Minister Gopal Bhargava said today on the occasion of the Earth Day.