AKLANON PROUD

By Darwin Tapayan Improved house of an OSPC member compared to a humble abode of a non-member in Osman village. OSPC members religiously maintain their backyard nurseries, even involving children in the family. Photo courtesy of DENR  VI The Community-Based Forest Management in Aklan is actively participated by 23 community people’s organizations (PO’s). According to Chief, Technical Service Division V For. Merlene Aborka of Aklan Provincial Environment and Natural Resources (PENRO), eight of these 23 PO’s are government partners in National Greening Program (NGP) implementation. PENRO Ivene Reyes said that one of the best among these PO’s is the Osman-San Dimas Producers Cooperative (OSPC) in Brgy. Osman, Malinao, Aklan. Osman is one of the two barangays in the last mountain range in the municipality of Malinao which is 14km far from the Brgy. Poblacion and 26km away from the provincial Capitol in Kalibo. The barangay has a total area of 1,600has wherein 1,300has of thi...

by Darwin T. Tapayan The Provincial Environment and Natural Resources (PENRO) –Aklan continues on preparing and planting activities to meet the National Greening Program (NGP) target area of 1,414.00 hectares all over the province this year 2016. At the end of July 2016, PENRO-Aklan reported that they already planted 991.00 has. equivalent to 70% of the yearly target. Covering 2011 to 2015, PENRO-Aklan has planted 6, 346.70 has. of forestland areas with 4.1 million seedlings in 60 barangays within 15 municipalities. This is equivalent to .27% of the National Goal in planting of 1.5 billion seedlings and .42% in 1.5 mil. has.  for the five-year period of implementation of NGP. In this period of the project, PENRO-Aklan prevalent commodities of NGP plantation were timber, indigenous,fuel wood, cacao, coffee, fruit trees, bamboo, mangrove, rubber and urban greening. According to the report, eleven municipalities with upland areas have planted 6, 184.00 has. with 3, 250, 983 see...