By Cora Sayre | Project Leader
Dear Friends,
Greetings from Leyte. Our coconut replanting program is continuing and at present we are able to distribute a total of 1,700 coconut seedlings to farmers. The farmers themselves dig the hole where the trees are to be planted as well as provide for organic fertilizer coming from animal waste in the farm. Except in some areas, most of the coconuts are growing well and our mortality rate is tolerable at 5 percent.
The planting distance of coconuts is 10 meters x 10 meters and we are doing planting of high-valued fruit and timber trees as well as bananas and bamboo in between the coconut rows. This is so that we will maximize the land. Most of the landholding here is small at average 1.5 hectares and there is really a need to improve farming systems. Traditionally farmers plant only coconuts and nothing else and when the coconuts were destroyed by high-velocity winds during the typhoon, there are no other sources of income and food.
Our approach of mix planting will be a model here in Leyte and we will use this in order to demonstrate to other farmers how they can maximize their land.
Hoping for more support from you.
Very sincerely yours,
Cora
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