TV9 Seed Ball Campaign 2018 : Gift Greenery to your kids

TV9 Seed Ball Campaign 2018

TV9's commitment towards environmental issues is evident with the revival of Seed Ball campaign. In a recent study published by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), researchers warned that if climate change continues at its current pace, deadly heatwaves could make large parts of South Asia too hot for human survival by the end of the century. Up to 1.5 billion people could see their hometowns in the densely populated agricultural regions of the Ganges and Indus river basins become impossible to live in, according to the report.

                                

             How to make " Seed Balls " ? - Learn & Gift Greenery To The World - TV9

Also, the indiscriminate felling of trees has been continuing unabated in almost all the cities of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana either for laying of a drainage line or for Metro works. It has been eating into the trees in two States that already has scarce green cover. Many trees that can be translocated are being mercilessly cut down. Therefore last year in 2017 when TV9 initiated Seed ball campaign many schools in the 10 districts of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana eagerly participated. 

                                Do you know " Seed Balls " ? : Future With Greenery - TV9

This year we plan to take our campaign forward with more schools and colleges To add strength to this campaign a group of young students called Green Warriors have joined the initiative.  On June 30th, 2018 Government officials, celebrities will be joining the event live as we air it from six districts of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh. The aim of the campaign is to build urban forestry and to provide greenery in barren and man made deserts using seed ball technique. It’s the easiest way to grow plants around the world and it has become an annual practice of TV9 to take this cause forward.  

                                       Gift " Greenery " to your kids with " Seed balls " - TV9

In the seed ball technique, seeds are placed in the middle of a ball made up of moist mixture of clay and red soil.  The seed ball becomes hard when dried in shade. This dried, hard seed ball is then sowed or tossed in waste lands, dry lands, uninhabited lands. The rains soak the seed ball, germinating the seed inside. The sprouting seed uses the nutrients of the seed ball and grows into a tree.

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