LAHORE: Expressing satisfaction over the progress of the province’s plantation drive, Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz Sharif said, “Punjab’s Green Revolution has reached an unprecedented scale through the collective efforts of the government and people.”
The chief minister said the Punjab Plantation Drive 2025-26 had achieved remarkable milestones, with 40 million saplings planted, 41,342 acres brought under plantation, and 3,085 avenue miles lined with trees across the province.
She said barren land from Dera Ghazi Khan to Bahawalpur was being transformed into thriving forests through the dedication and hard work of Team Punjab, adding that the campaign marked only the beginning of a long-term environmental transformation.
“This is just the beginning. By the grace of Allah, the Punjab of the next decade will be a province of forests, clean air and living rivers for generations to come,” the chief minister said in a post on X on Saturday.
Maryam Nawaz Sharif further stated that the completion of Punjab’s two-year afforestation mission stood among the most significant environmental achievements in the province’s history. She recalled that two years ago the government had pledged to restore Punjab’s forests and said that, by the grace of Allah, the commitment had been fulfilled with nearly 50 million trees planted across 54,986 acres of land between April 2024 and Spring 2026.
She said the positive impact of the campaign was visible across the province — from Muzaffargarh to Murree, Chichawatni to Faisalabad, and Rahim Yar Khan to Gujranwala — where landscapes once fading were turning green again.
“What was grey is now green, and what is green shall be protected,” she said.
Highlighting achievements under the Plant for Pakistan Spring Tree Plantation Campaign 2025, the chief minister said the restoration of Punjab’s barren lands marked another milestone. She said thousands of acres of previously barren land had been transformed into thriving green landscapes between October 2024 and June 2025.
The chief minister said restoration work had also been expanded to Jhok Reserve Forest, Lal Suhanra, Mianwali, Gujranwala and Murree.
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