LET US SOW FOR OUR FUTURE

Be Generous to Throw Seeds on Land.

A typical household in any city in India consumes at least 50 mangoes a year during the season. We are around 250 million households.  How many of these millions of seeds become trees. Hardly a few. Why is it so?  Normally the seeds are packed in polythene along with the other kitchen waste and folded and dumped in the garbage bin. The same is  the sad story with the other fruits, plants and trees.

We are all taking lot of efforts to develop a coconut farm and wait for 5-7 years for the yield. Who has planted coconut trees on our islands? Every island has got beautiful coconut trees in millions. In Chennai we can see the papal/banyan tree growing out of the walls, window panes or on the roof. Birds transport these seeds and they wait for the monsoon to get water and they grow. 

What  harm would happen to us if we throw such seeds  across the waste lands, fence, bush or near water bodies. That piece of land may not belong to us but the earth is ours. Hesitate not to sow seeds in any piece of land. It is common knowledge there are institutions with lot of space but standing barren and dry.

Steps to be followed.

1.      . Decide that you will not waste any seed of any variety.
2.       Be on the look out for a suitable space/time/monsoon.
3.     Don’t worry about the ownership. This earth belongs to us.
4.     If a thousand seeds go to the garbage/landfill, a forest goes waste.
5.      If a thousand seeds go to the land at least a single tree will emerge.
6.      Let us sow and not bury the future.