Planting shade-giving trees in place of seemai karuvelam

4,034 seeds are ready to be planted across the city

Green roots: Volunteers and students processing seeds to be planted in Tiruchi on Sunday.

Students and volunteers have readied as many as 4,034 seeds of variety of shade-giving trees and horticultural plants to be planted in areas where the seemai karuvelam trees had been uprooted last month across the city.

The students fixed the seeds of ‘pungan’, tamarind, brinjal, neem and other species into the balls of wet sand.

The ‘seed balls’ each containing one seed, will be planted in the fields in course of time, says J. Robin, founder of ‘Iragugal’, a service organisation.

S. Mercy, one of the coordinators, said that a total of 217 students from a couple of schools in the city and volunteers prepared the seed balls within ten minutes.

Jayaraj and S. Karpagam, members of ‘Iragugal’, said that the fields for sowing the seeds prepared by the volunteers would be finalised within a couple of days