CITY OF SAN FERNANDO, Pampanga September 5, 2012-Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) recently opened its P2.2 million clonal propagation facility in Mt. Arayat National Park, Pampanga.
DENR Regional Executive Director Maximo Dichoso disclosed, “the nursery is expected to produce at least 15,000 genetically superior forest tree seedlings a year to support the seedling requirements of the National Greening Program (NGP) in Central Luzon.”
The facility sits on a 1.2- hectare complex and adapts the orthotropic stem cutting technology which uses rooting hormones to enhance growth of young shoots from a genetically superior parent tree in a controlled environment.
Dichoso added that “genetically superior forest tree seedlings are pest and disease-resistant and have bigger chances of growth and survival when used in reforestation programs. “
The NGP was created under Executive Order No.26 of President Benigno Aquino III to pursue sustainable development for poverty reduction, food security, biodiversity conservation, and climate change mitigation and adaptation.
It aims to plant 1.5 billion trees covering about 1.5 million hectares for a period of six years (2011-2016) in lands of public domain.
These lands include forestlands, mangrove and protected areas, ancestral domains, civil and military reservations and urban areas. (Carlo Lorenzo J. Datu)
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