Denpasar, Bali (ANTARA News) - Bali has earmarked Rp66 billion in its budget to reforest fallow and critical land everywhere in the province over the next fives years, a local forestry official said.

"We will replant deforested and critical land covering a total area of 25,346 hectares scattered in various districts and cities in stages over a period of five years," Ida Agung Buana, head of Bali`s forestry service, said here Tuesday.

The annual reforestation target was a minimum of 5,000 hectares per year with the replanting process to tak place inside or outside protected or village forests.

He said for the private and individual sectors, the local government had set up free seedling distribution centers. Companies or individuals who have land they wish to reforest can obtain tree seedlings free of charge from the centers.

He said the government had set up seedling distribution centers in eastern, southern , northern and central Bali.

The reforestation program was to be implemented to support the Bali provincial government`s program to make a clean and green province, a province with a green economy and green culture, Buana said.

(KR-MDR/A014/S026)

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