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Sounds like a great plan and a welcome initiative, but the numbers are somewhat surreal. 40 seedlings per person in means every family of on average 6 persons need to plant 240 trees. Most people live in urban areas and do not have access to an open space big enough to plant 240 trees. Also planting 29 million trees per hour (they probably don't plant trees in the dark) seems unlikely.

Hopefully the numbers will some day be reached and Ethiopia becomes a greaner country again, but I feel like Dr Getahun Mekuria needs to recount the planted trees and create a more likely target for the near future