Nature Lovers Puneites

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About Nature Lovers Puneites

It is the common phenomenon that with the advent of sky rising buildings the Cement highways roads the temperature of the city is rising with astonishing speed. The builders are minting money by grabbing land and building highrising residential buildings wiht utter disregards to the ecology of the city.

I with the help of this platform would like to invite those resident of Pune who care for the ecology of Pune. It is my suggestion that every builder when decides to raise the building should plant atleast 4 Neem Trees for every 10 flates he creates.

The alert activists should look in their area about the residential scheme find out how many neem trees are needed to be planted being the back log of earlier years.

Neem tree is selected because
The neem tree is noted for its drought resistance. Normally it thrives in areas with sub-arid to sub-humid conditions, with an annual rainfall between 400 and 1200 mm. It can grow in regions with an annual rainfall below 400 mm, but in such cases it depends largely on the ground water levels. Neem can grow in many different types of soil, but it thrives best on well drained deep and sandy soils (pH 6.2-7.0). It is a typical tropical/subtropical tree and exists at annual mean temperatures between 21-32 °C. It can tolerate high to very high temperatures. It does not tolerate temperature below 4 °C (leaf shedding and death may ensue).
This evergreen, which sheds its leaves only under extreme heat and drought (and then only for a short time), is valued for its shade. Its extended branches make it excellent for parks, roadsides, villages, streets, courtyards, shelterbelts—in fact, almost any place where some relief from the sun would be appreciated.
Planting neem on a large scale might also improve the declining ecosystems of many areas considered fairly hopeless. In Haiti, for example, and other countries where the tree cover has been stripped away, vast plantings of any type of tree would likely bring environmental benefits, among them fewer floods, less siltation