In the first segment of his interview given to Ms Pali Chandra, M. R. Hari details how after a series of failures in creating greenery on his rocky plot, he finally attained success by following in the footsteps of Prof. (Dr) Akira Miyawaki, the world famous Japanese botanist. It discusses the special features of the Miyawaki Model of Afforestation – the significance of creating a potting mixture containing cow dung, coir pith, rice husk and soil in equal proportions, the importance of nurturing saplings for three months in grow bags filled with the potting mixture, the necessity of mulching, the success that Prof. Miyawaki enjoyed when he raised a forest on a rocky terrain in Kanagawa in Japan, and the need to create Miyawaki forests in abandoned quarries.