ENVIRONMENT DAY: 35 THOUSAND TREES PLANTED IN NEPAL IN THREE YEARS

The celebrations of the International Environment Day of 5 June 2020 remind us how the whole global community must change course, the cry of global society is louder and louder: we need to rethink what we buy and use, adopt sustainable habits and agricultural and industrial models, safeguard the wild and natural spaces that still remain.

In Nepal, where we have been working since 1996 and where 66% of people are still employed in agriculture, agroforestry systems help to protect agricultural land from floods, landslides, drought and the effects of climate change.
Yet even in the country already the victim of the terrible earthquake that destroyed entire areas in 2015, environmental deterioration advances, agricultural productivity is decreasing and traditional forest resources are not able to satisfy the growing demand for food, fodder and wood. In this context agroforestry is one of the best ways to face this situation.

Since 2017, thanks to our reforestation projects and to the increase in productivity through the cultivation of coffee, fruit and multipurpose trees, over 35 thousand plants have been planted, including coffee trees, shade trees such as macadamia and jackfruit, lime plants and Ipil Ipil.

Over 200 farmers attended the training sessions on soil preparation, planting and care of trees, organic farming, marketing, reforestation and animal nutrition, while over 300 families benefit from the start of coffee production, the trade of fruit and the use of Ipil Ipil species for various purposes: biomass, wood, plant fibres and animal nutrition.

All the trees planted are georeferenced and photographed, while the planting of coffee, fruit and multipurpose trees will continue until 2022.

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In this country we have started a project that foresees the planting of 20,000 plants, an activity that is part of a wider project that foresees a contrast to migration and to the loss of natural resources (mountain forest) in southern Chin State. To find out more >>