The State Forest Department, in a bid to create assets and popularise the concept of sandalwood estates, will take up the exercise of planting around 10 lakh sandalwood saplings in around 10,000 acres of forest land across the State.
Addressing mediapersons here on Friday, Forest Minister C P Yogeeshwara said that 10 places - Kolar, Ramanagara, Bangalore, Mysore, Shimoga, Belgaum, Dharwad, Chikmagalur, Hassan, Tumkur and Bidar - had been identified for planting sandalwood saplings.
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[2] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/newspaper/deccan-herald-bangalore
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[6] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/shimoga-d
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[11] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/tumkur-d
[12] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/trees
[13] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/land
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