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By Express News ServiceHYDERABAD: Around 51,000 seed balls were dispersed by the devotees of Mata Amritanandamayi Math and the NGO Ayudh, on the outskirts of Hyderabad on Sunday. The seed balls, composed of a mixture of fertile soil, compost and plant seeds, were made over a span of 10 days. Over 200 of the devotees and Ayudh members fanned out into the Chittapur reserve forest area near Ibrahimpatnam and dispersed them. As a member organisation of the United Nation’s Trillion Tree campaign, the Math has been organising such afforestation drives globally. Raghu Nath, coordinator and Math in-charge in the Telugu states, said: “With the monsoon setting in, these planted seed balls can sprout into saplings, resulting in increased green cover in the future.”.