The Yendi Municipal Information Director, Mr Edward Atta Abebe Dawuni, has appealed to the Forestry Commission to provide enough seedlings nation wide for planting.
He said the Commission should employ people who would be in charge of watering and taking care of the seedlings in its forest reserves for re-planting.
Mr Dawuni said in the 1970s a number of communities established woodlots of teak, albezia, cassia, neem, mahogany, lagotolia among others in their areas.
He said this during the celebration of the International Year of Forestry at Yendi on Tuesday.
He urged the Forestry Commission to collaborate with the Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies to ensure that all communities and institutions plant trees and also establish woodlots in their communities as it was done in the 1970s and 1980s.
Mr Dawuni appealed to the Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies to enact bye-laws that would compel charcoal burners to establish woodlots.
He appealed to the Forestry Commission to collaborate with Information Services Department, the media Houses and the Ministry of Food and Agriculture to step up education on tree planting.
Mr Dawuni appealed to the government to provide enough funds to the Forestry Commission to employ more labourers to establish seedling farms to enable communities get seedlings for re-planting.