To put this in perspective, the daily wage for planting and protecting these trees, 100 rupees, can buy a weeks worth of vegetables. If they offered a similar plan in the US i would want to participate :)
To put that in perspective: The daily wage for planting trees is roughly $2 US. Or that vegetables are ~$0.70 per day.
It slightly unfortunate, but I doubt it could scale to work in the US. That would come out to paying each individual ~ $30 per day (guessing that an equivelant amount of vegetables would be roughly $5 per day, not based on any hard numbers), so this project would cost some place in the range of $1 million per day, before any kind of overhead, just for paying all of the people.
It slightly unfortunate, but I doubt it could scale to work in the US. That would come out to paying each individual ~ $30 per day (guessing that an equivelant amount of vegetables would be roughly $5 per day, not based on any hard numbers), so this project would cost some place in the range of $1 million per day, before any kind of overhead, just for paying all of the people.