This project aims to start a seedling nursery and plant 25,000 high-valued fruit and timber trees as replacement of trees damaged because of the long dry season caused by El Nino. The opportunity is that when the long dry cycle ends, continuous rain occurs and this is the time to plant trees. Trees provide income to growers, shade, food for animals, improve water retention, improve soil fertility and many more benefits to the local population as well as to the environment.
So many fruit and timber trees were destroyed during the long El Nino long hot weather cycle reducing income of farmers, increasing the incidence of flash floods as no roots can hold the soil and animals have no fodder to eat. This small project will help solve the situation by engaging farmers to re-plant and providing them with seedlings and organic fertilizer.
Small-scale farmers could not afford to re-plant trees in their farms due to inaccessibility of seedlings and organic fertilizer in order for the trees to grow well. This project will provide them with these inputs. We target to raise 25,000 seedlings in one seedling nursery in 2 municipalities in Zamboanga del Norte.
The long-term impact is improve incomes of farmers, improvement of the soil and improvement of the environment as trees also act as carbon sink.
