Jul
03
2016

Over 16,000 Tree Saplings Supplied to Shan Villages

The Myanmar Institute for Integrated Development (MIID) will donate 16,000 tree saplings, including bamboo to six hillside villages near Shan State’s Nyaungshwe Township. The four hundred households that make up the six villages will be given 41 tree saplings to plant on slopes near their homes.

Lime, mango, cassia siamea, djenkol bean and eucalyptus will reportedly also be planted, in addition to bamboo and avocado, all of which are being financially assisted by FREDA and Nepal-based ICIMOD.

The main saplings to be distributed out are bamboo and avocado trees,” said U Soe Naing Htay, a MIID staff member from Nyaungshwe.

Adding, “Each household will receive 10 bamboo and 10 avocado tree saplings, with the remaining varieties of saplings to be shared out equally. The primary objective of the initiative is to guard against deforestation and prevent hill-side erosion by reinforcing the slopes with trees.” Also saying that he planting will be a volunteering project.

“We arrived in Shan State back in January, close-by to Inle Lake and visited villages in Kalaw and Nyaungshwe townships near Heho,” explained David Abrahamson, project official for MIID. “We began our initiative to plant trees in April 2014, starting to plant the following year. This time marks the commencing of our 2016 initiative.”

It is reported that approximately 13,000 of the aforementioned saplings were planted within the grounds of schools of the six villages solely rely on rainwater for drinking and cultivating their cabbage, cauliflower, butter bean, banana and bamboo crops.

This article appeared in the Global New Light of Myanmar on July 3, 2016.

By Myitmakha News Agency

Reference; https://issuu.com/myanmarnewspaper/docs/3_july_16_gnlm page 9.