By Cora Sayre | Project Leader
Dear Friend,
Warm greetings and thank you very much for your generous support to our project improving the biodiversity of our province. Our biodiversity is being threatened by a number of factors such as farmers seeking out new land to farm, illegal wood cutters, severe dry weather due to climate change and extreme poverty in the uplands. This reporting period, we are introducing the planting of dragon fruits by small-scale farmers to upland, denuded lands. The dragon fruit belong to the cactus family and is a prolific grower. The fruits if grown in direct sun is exceedingly sweet and this will give the farmers good income. The lifespan of the plant is more than 40 years and this is indeed very excellent. Later on we will form a cooperative so that marketing of the fruits and other products will be centralized and good price can be negotiated.
Again, thank you very much.
Very sincerely yours,
Cora Sayre
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