Zomba District has recorded a 78 percent survival rate, with 1,944,618 of the three million trees planted during the last tree planting season surviving.
Acting District Forestry Director, Ida Mkwezalanba, disclosed this on thursday during a tree verification exercise at Group Village Headman Kasambwe under Traditional Authority Mwambo.
She attributed the losses, particularly in Masaula and Chingale, to livestock browsing and dry spells.
Mkwezalanba said the district has intensified tree protection campaigns and is targeting to raise over three million seedlings ahead of the next planting season.
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