A budget of AD3 billion (some $40 million) has been raised to improve the prevention forest fire device, the Algerian Forests General Management (FGM) told APS on Sunday.
For this purpose, FGM "has put the first technical data sheet of AD2 billion set to renovate the radio network and to acquire a new one to get rid of all difficult areas," stated Mr. Mammeri, FGM assistant-manager of the forest patrimony.
The budget will also be used to purchase 160 vehicles equipped with tanks and extinguishing devices, as well as 320 others to transport brigades where forest fires will break out, he conveyed, adding that "another AD1 billion will be used to protect dry plants, the cause of many fires."
According to him, "plants, when they dry up, are attacked by parasites and diseases and becomes as such vulnerable to forest fires. To prevent this "a AD1 billion technical data sheet is meant to treat 186,000 hectares of forests in the next campaign." (menareport.com)
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