The Southern Luzon State University (SLSU) continues to reforest the Mt. Banahaw de Lucban in Quezon Province as part of its efforts to restore, preserve and protect the mountain’s ecology, and to prevent catastrophe to happen on communities at the foot of the “mystic” mountain.
In a statement, SLSU-Lucban President Dr. Cecilia N. Gascon said that last March 22, the campus personnel, student and faculty went up to Mt. Banahaw to reforest some 200 hectares of damaged part of the mountain. Some of the species of indigenous trees that they planted were dalingdingan, bintongol, apitong, mulawin, bagtikan, macaasim and malababayas, as well as bamboo, wild ferns, and rattan.
The project, Gascon said, was made possible with the help of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources-Region IV-A and some non-government organizations (NGOs).
Aside from planting trees, the SLSU-Lucban used coco geo-nets, a kind of anti-erosion material made of coco coir.
Gascon also said that other initiatives of SLSU-Lucban include CFDP – coconut replanting program funded by CIIF, with some 70,000 coconut seedlings already distributed for planting; the production of embryo-cultured makapuno, coconut based agro-forestry pilot farm funded by Department of Agriculture- Bureau of Agriculture and Research (DA-BAR); growth performance of rubber tree in Quezon province also funded by DA- BAR; crafted project in Sampaloc, Quezon funded by NEDA-KR2 where rubber tree as a main crop; and the science and technology-based farm on production of high quality malapapaya planting stocks funded by PCARRD or the Philippine Council for Agriculture, Aquatic and Natural Resources Research and Development of the Department of Science and Technology (DOST). [Noel Sales Barcelona/CBCPNews]
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