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The Biodiversity Conservation Program of the Ramon Aboitiz Foundation Inc. (RAFI-BioCon) conducted a farm-planning workshop to its two tree-growing community partners in Barangays Lamesa in Balamban and Bunga in Toledo City last Jan. 24 and 26, 2018, respectively.

Members of the Lamesa Farmers’ Association and Unified Farmers’ Cooperative and other interested lot owners who attended the workshop are all residents of Barangays Lamesa and Bunga. Farming is the main source of income of most of them.

The workshop aimed to educate farmers on how to maximize their land by teaching them the 7-in-1 canopy layer system of planting crops and native trees. This provided participants further information to upgrade their own land.

The BioCon Team provided inputs on how to identify tree and plant categories according to slope, location, and sunlight exposure. The farmers were also made to observe the natural environment and to relate the natural system of plants and trees with their usual farming practices. They were also taught to identify which plants and trees belong to dominant, co-dominant, climber, shrubs, crawlers, shade tolerant, and gap fillers categories.

By the end of the workshop, the participants were able to create their own farm plan according to the scientific method introduced to them. They were also able include their preferred tree species to plant as possible income source.

By providing them with the technical capacity to care for their own land, taking care of the plant and trees will now become part of their priority.

RAFI’s BioCon program offers community-based and environmentally appropriate tree growing services.

The Biodiversity Conservation Program of the Ramon Aboitiz Foundation Inc (RAFI-BioCon) offer community-based and environmentally appropriate tree growing services.