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Plant for Pakistan (Plant4Pakistan), also known as 10 Billion Tree Tsunami, was a five-year project to plant 10 billion trees across Pakistan from 2018 to 2023.[1] Prime Minister Imran Khan started the drive on 2 September 2018 with approximately 1.5 million trees planted on the first day.[2] The campaign was based on the successful Billion Tree Tsunami campaign of the former Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf government, also led by Imran Khan, in the province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in 2014.[3] This different initiative is often confused with the initiative of the Prime Minister Mian Muhammad Nawaz Sharif who launched a national campaign of Green Pakistan and also allocated budget funding from the PSDP.

In 2020, the program tripled its number of workers to 63,600 after being momentarily halted following the COVID-19 pandemic in Pakistan, aiming to enlist those left unemployed by its economic consequences.[4]

Most of the work, which paid between 500 and 800 rupees (US$3–5) a day, took place in rural areas, with people setting up nurseries, planting saplings, and serving as forest protection guards. The plan was awarded 7.5 billion rupees ($46m) in funding.[5] Saplings planted during the initiative included mulberry, acacia, moringa and other indigenous species.

  1. ^ Gul, Ayaz. "Pakistan to Plant '10 Billion Trees'". VOA. Retrieved 15 September 2018.
  2. ^ "'Plant for Pakistan' campaign kicks off across the country | The Express Tribune". The Express Tribune. 1 September 2018. Retrieved 15 September 2018.
  3. ^ "Pakistan has planted over a billion trees". World Economic Forum. Retrieved 15 September 2018.
  4. ^ "Pakistan Hires Thousands of Newly-Unemployed Laborers for Ambitious 10 Billion Tree-Planting Initiative". Good News Network. thegoodnewsnetwork. 30 April 2020. Retrieved 2 May 2020.
  5. ^ "Pakistan's virus-idled workers hired to plant trees". www.aljazeera.com. Retrieved 30 April 2020..