Qat replaced with beneficial plants

Coffee used to be Yemen's main product before Qat replaced it.

Ibb governor Ahmed Abdullah al-Hajri inaugurated on May 4, 2010 a planting campaign in Ibb province under the slogan “The number of trees the same as the number of people.”
 
“The campaign primarily aims at planting 500,000 plants in almost 6 directorates of the governorate instead of qat plants under the name of Environment and Planting Campaign until the end of 2010,” said the Executive Director of the campaign, Ahmed al-Jendi.
 
He added that in al-Sahool directorate, they eliminated 800 acres of qat during a 3-day campaign and planted 3,000 acres of coffee plants and 500 mango plants instead.
 
“In al-Qasr directorate, we removed 3,000 acres of qat and replaced them with 10,000 coffee plants and 2,000 mango plants. The remaining directorates are De al-Sefal, Jeblah, al-Rathma and Ba’adan,” said al-Jendi.
 
This comes as an initiative from the governor, the Chairman of the Campaign, Ahmed Abdullah al-Hajri to develop tourist and relic sites in addition to highways from Yareem district to Qaeda district.
 
“This campaign is not exclusive to qat. Moreover, we intend to announce five nature reserves: Nama reserve in Jebla, Wadi al-Door and Annah reserve in al-Odain, Jabal al-Dhalem reserve in al-Saiani, Hab Fort reserve in Ba’adan and Sumara Fort reserve in al-Makhader,” said al-Jendi.

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