{"id":69327,"date":"2020-08-18T12:12:46","date_gmt":"2020-08-18T07:12:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/?p=69327"},"modified":"2020-08-18T12:12:47","modified_gmt":"2020-08-18T07:12:47","slug":"plantation-drive-to-grow-islamabads-first-fruit-garden-launched","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/plantation-drive-to-grow-islamabads-first-fruit-garden-launched.html","title":{"rendered":"Plantation drive to grow Islamabad\u2019s first fruit garden launched"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Islamabad: Islamabad Mayor Sheikh Ansar Aziz on Thursday (August 13) inaugurated the first-ever fruit garden in the city\u2019s history, according to news sources.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/mci-cda-to-establish-wetlands-treat-streams-in-islamabad.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">MCI, CDA to establish wetlands, treat streams in Islamabad<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Mayor initiated the plantation drive by planting a sapling on a green belt located within Sector D-12. The mayor addressed the media during the ceremony, and stated that trees played an important part in the elimination of pollution. He also announced that citrus fruits would be planted on all the green belts in the city.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mayor Aziz revealed that the said trees would take two to five years to grow fully, and that it would be the responsibility of the city\u2019s residents to help nurture and look after the plants growing in their respective locales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/govt-urged-develop-infrastructure-islamabad-markets.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Govt urged to develop infrastructure in Islamabad markets<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Earlier, on August 9, Prime Minister Imran Khan had launched the largest tree plantation drive in Pakistan\u2019s history in order to commemorate the \u2018Tiger Force Day\u2019. On the occasion, the PM had stressed that Pakistan was the sixth most affected country by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/epa-takes-up-task-purify-islamabads-environment-water.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">climate change<\/a> in the world, and that it was the responsibility of its citizens to make the country green for the coming generations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad: Islamabad Mayor Sheikh Ansar Aziz on Thursday (August 13) inaugurated the first-ever fruit garden in the city\u2019s history, according to news sources. Read: MCI, CDA to establish wetlands, treat streams in Islamabad The Mayor initiated the plantation drive by planting a sapling on a green belt located within Sector D-12. The mayor addressed the media during the ceremony, and stated that trees played an important part in the elimination of pollution. He also announced that citrus fruits would be planted on all the green belts in the city. Mayor Aziz revealed that the said trees would take two to five years to grow fully, and that it would be the responsibility of the city\u2019s residents to help nurture and look after the plants growing in their respective locales. Read: Govt urged to develop infrastructure in Islamabad markets Earlier, on August 9, Prime Minister Imran Khan had launched the largest tree plantation drive in Pakistan\u2019s history in order to commemorate the \u2018Tiger Force Day\u2019. On the occasion, the PM had stressed that Pakistan was the sixth most affected country by climate change in the world, and that it was the responsibility of its citizens to make the country green for&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":68393,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15181],"tags":[37118],"persona":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-69327","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-plantation-drive-to-grow-islamabads-first-fruit-garden-launched","9":"cat-15181-id"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Drive to grow Islamabad\u2019s first fruit garden launched - Zameen News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Islamabad Mayor Sheikh Ansar Aziz on Thursday (August 13) inaugurated the first-ever fruit garden in the city\u2019s history by planting a sapling.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/plantation-drive-to-grow-islamabads-first-fruit-garden-launched.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Drive to grow Islamabad\u2019s first fruit garden launched - Zameen News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Islamabad Mayor Sheikh Ansar Aziz on Thursday (August 13) inaugurated the first-ever fruit garden in the city\u2019s history by planting a sapling.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/plantation-drive-to-grow-islamabads-first-fruit-garden-launched.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pakistan Real Estate News &amp; 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