ONE PERSON NEEDS 20M2
Panorama.am
15:35 23/06/2008
‘This year in Yerevan 100 ha green areas are envisaged to plant. 40
ha of it have already been planted in Shengavit community and the
rest is envisaged to do in the other communities in the forthcoming
months’,-said Avet Martirosyan, the head of nature protection
administration of Yerevan`s municipality.
He added that the taking of the planted trees in Shengavit community
is 85-90%. Today the total green area of Yerevan is 67383.5ha and
453.18ha are in centre. For watering these areas it is planned to
set up 8.015 long meters irrigation system, and it costs 35mln.AMD.
Martirosyan notified that this year 22 illegal logging cases are
recorded and levied amount of cutting down is 5.5mln.AMD.
According to the head planner, in 2020 in Yerevan the green area for
one person should be 20m2. It is accounted that each year in Yerevan
500mln. AMD`s planting of greenery is planned to realize. Only this
year, about 60mln AMD has been spent on the planting of greenery.
In Yerevan the population is about 1.2mln. It is accounted that for
the planting like this it is needed either to widen the territory of
Yerevan or pass to the vertical planting of greenery.