Project Report
| Mar 4, 2019
Introducing high-valued crops
By Jed Christian Sayre | Project Leader
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High-yielding banana
Dear Friend,
Warm greetings and thank you very much for your generous support to our project improving the biodiversity of our rainforest here. Our approach this time is to introduce to farmers high-yielding and upgraded varieties of crops so that their incomes are enhanced at the same time the biodiversity of the area is improved also. The crops that we are introducing include cacao, banana, coffee, durian and other fruit and timber trees. The promise is tremendous increase in income for an area of their farm. Without access to high yielding and improved crop varieties, the farmers are at the losing end with low productivity and poverty always facing them. We are able to provide 75 farmers with this type of inputs during this reporting period.
Hoping for your continuing support.
Very sincerely yours,
Jed Christian
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Dec 5, 2018
Improving natural resources
By Jed Christian Z. Sayre | Project Leader
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Improving resources
Dear Friend,
Good day to all of you and thank you very much for your support to our project improving the biodiversity of the rainforest here in Mindanao. Due to logging and entry of small-scale farmers into deep forested mountains, the result is loss of important, endemic flora and fauna. Being tropical in nature, our forest is home to plants and animals that could nowhere be found around the world. There is an urgent need to protect them and preserve them for future generations. During this reporting period, we train a group of youth in the science of producing organic fertilizer from waste around the farm. Aside from organic fertilizer we provided them training on the production of organic concoctions like lactic acid bacteria, effective microorganisms and using earthworms in composting. A total of 45 youth-leaders were trained and they were guided into making back home action plans in order to capacitate also their neighbours to do the same.
Hoping for your continuing support to our project.
Very sincerely yours,
Jed Christian
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Sep 11, 2018
Producing organic fertilizer
By Jed Christian Z. Sayre | Project Leader
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Producing organic fertilizer
Dear Friend,
Warm greetings and thank you very much for your generous support to our project trying to improve the biodiversity of our mountain areas. We are particularly concerned about the forest or uplant biodiversity and our aim is to plant endemic tree species comprising fruit and timber species. In so doing we will be hitting several goals comprising the improvement of incomes of the beneficiaries as well as improving the soil fertility. Without these 2 goals, biodiversity improvement will be problematic because of continuing encroachment of lowland farmers to the mountains. The government could not prevent this because poor lowland people need also to seek food and provisions and they can get this by eking an existence in forest areas. This reporting period, we are starting a small seedling nursery and model farm and we produce our own organic fertilizer using waste around the farm. This approach is to showcase to farmers that improving the farm can be done with limited resources and using recycled farm wastes.
Again, thank you very much for your generosity.
Very sincerely yours,
Jed Christian
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