Driven by an intent to protect Earth and its environment, Martin Charitable Trust in association with the district of Ramanathapuram, and through the support of the Government of Tamil Nadu organized a world-record event ‘Let’s Make Seed Balls’ at the auditorium of National Academy School, Ramanathapuram. Mrs. Leema Rose, Managing Trustee of the Martin Charitable Trust handed over the seed balls to the district collector after the event concluded.
Spanning over 72 hours (three days) from 21st to 23rd January 2020 the event created awareness on the importance of green cover, reducing global warming, preventing soil erosion, generating oxygen, bringing in rains and reducing weather extremities. 34, 00,000 seed balls were prepared by 2500 participants which included students from the National Academy and Ramanathapuram District Government Schools.
This achievement was observed in person and was certified by four different world record agencies, including the Elite World Records (United States LLC), Asian Records Academy (United Arab Emirates), the Indian Records Academy, and the Tamilan Book of Records.
The event was inaugurated by Mrs. Leema Rose, Managing Trustee of the Martin Charitable Trust on 21st January in the presence of District Collector of Ramanathapuram District, Mr. Ko. Veeraraghava Rao, IAS, Additional District Collector (Development), Mr. M, Pradeep Kumar, IAS, and Mrs. Sayyed Abdullah, Registrar of National Academy School.
To suit the weather conditions of Ramanthapuram, seeds of Custard apple (Sitapazham), Wood apple (Vilam pazham), Guava, Golden shower trees (Sara Kondrai), Peacock flower trees (Mayil Kondrai), and Portia (Poovarasan), were chosen for making the seed-balls. Each ball contained four seeds, totaling to a quantity of over 1 crore 46 lakh seeds in the 34, 00,000 seed balls which were made by students using red soil, cow dung, and water. These seed-balls will now be planted all over Ramanathapuram district, through the office of the District Collector, and Martin Charitable Trust.
