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`The total area of forests in our country amounts to 6,641,000 chungbo, or about 16,600,000 acres, accounting for as much as 67 percent of the whole territory of Korea. And the climate and other natural features, which are suitable for forestation, provide us with an ideal opportunity to make Korea a prosperous forestry state. In reality, however, Korea depends on imports from overseas to meet most of the domestic demand for timber. In order to bequeath green forests to our posterity, the government established in 1973 a 10­year forestation plan, under which all the people of the country are to plant 10 kinds of seedlings, including those for fuel and fruits and fast­growing and slowly­growing ones, on an yearly, step­by­step basis. As we did last year, we have again designated the period form March 21 through April 20 as the National Tree Planting Period to have all our people take part in the nationwide campaign by planting, and closely attending to, trees for the eventual realization of our dream of green forests. Hoping that the 10­year forestation plan will be successfully implemented through the combined effort of both the government and people, the Ministry of Communications is issuing this special stamps in commemoration of the Second National Tree Planting Campaign.`