Katsina Targets 11m Trees by 2030 As Radda Launches Statewide Greening Campaign
Katsina State Governor, Dikko Umaru Radda, has launched a statewide tree-planting campaign aimed at planting and nurturing 11 million trees by 2030 to combat desertification, restore degraded lands and strengthen
Katsina State sits within Nigeria's far northern belt, an area long battling desert encroachment from the Sahara as the Sahel expands southward. Decades of deforestation, overgrazing and erratic rainfall have degraded farmland and pasture across the state, fuelling food insecurity and displacement, and intensifying farmer-herder tensions over shrinking arable land. Afforestation has repeatedly featured in state and federal climate strategies, including the Great Green Wall initiative, which Katsina falls under as a frontline state.
The newly launched campaign under Governor Dikko Umaru Radda sets a specific target of 11 million trees by 2030, framed around combating desertification, restoring degraded land and building climate resilience. The coverage is consistent across outlets on the scale and timeline of the initiative, but none of the reports detail funding sources, the agencies or communities tasked with implementation, survival-rate monitoring, or how this effort ties into broader national reforestation programmes—details likely to emerge as the campaign progresses.