(August 2, 2019 at 11:34 am)Gae Bolga Wrote: They claim millions of people were involved. It’s not hard to dig a trench and drop seedlings down ( or to broadcast seed)
Previous record was 66mil, idk.
Could it be done, yeah.. sure.
Their starvation issue doesn’t have anything to do with lack of agricultural skill, btw.
Here' s my experience.
I live in an area where they grow lots of ornamental spruce. (Xmas trees) I even had a grower plant 1500 or so trees on our back 40. This is an ideal area for these trees - which take 10-20 years to grow to a size they can use. It took a crew of 6 two or three days to plant all those trees.
They only had to irrigate the first year.
I seriously doubt they can drop a tree in a trench and forget about it - and expect it to grow. I expect the irrigation will be the greater share of time and expense.
And then - where do you get that many live seedlings? I cant even imagine the expense - and the difficulty of the logistics involved to transport those seedlings and keep them alive.
It' s possible I suppose - but it took the US CCC ten years to plant 3 billion trees. We had quite a bit more manpower.....
