Provincial government employees and other stakeholders will converge in the upland barangay of Sinundolan, San Remigio, to plant 2,000 fruit-bearing seedlings to mark the “Pista kang Kagubatan” in Antique on June 26.<\/p>\n
The annual activity is mandated under Provincial Ordinance No. 2015-109, designating every last Friday of June for the tree-planting activity, Provincial Environment and Natural Resources Officer Vivian Marfil said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are encouraging provincial government employees and those others willing to join in the tree planting activity to bring at least two fruit-bearing seedlings that they could plant in the area,” Marfil said in an interview.<\/p>\n
Among the seedlings they target to plant are jackfruit, mabolo or velvet apple, casta\u00f1as, and duhat or black plum.<\/p>\n
With the yearly activity, they hoped to develop the six to seven-hectare area into a micro watershed that will serve as a year-round source of water for the community.<\/p>\n
Last year, they planted 1,500 seedlings in the same barangay. (PNA)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The tree-planting activity aims to strengthen environmental awareness while contributing to long-term ecological sustainability.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":71,"featured_media":264695,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15011],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-264694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-greeninc"],"zyndk8_nxtgen_metadata":{"nxtgen_comments":[{"9466":"malaking tulong ito sa tubig at kalikasan ng community \ud83d\udc99\r","9467":"duhat \ud83c\udf47\r"}]},"yoast_head":"\n