Fort Magsaysay's 670 hectares devoted to high quality bamboo production

From the Philippine News Agency (Apr 8): Fort Magsaysay's 670 hectares devoted to high quality bamboo production

FORT RAMON MAGSAYSAY, Palayan City, Nueva Ecija -- The Philippine Army's 7th Infantry Division (7ID) has forged an agreement with the Department of Environment and Natural Resources-Ecosystems Research and Development Bureau (DENR-ERDB) to utilize 670 hectares of this vast military reservation in bamboo propagation, the military reported on Wednesday.

Capt. Mark Ruelos, chief of the 7ID public affairs office, said the memorandum of agreement (MOA) provides that the area will be used to produce high quality planting material in support to National Greening Program (NGP) of the government.

The planting site will also be used for the plantation of a total of 305,400 high quality planting material/seedlings.

The 20,400 bamboo propagules will be planted for the first 100 hectares while the 285,000 indigenous clones and seedling will be planted to the remaining 570 hectares.

Major Gen. Glorioso V. Miranda, 7ID commanding general, and Henry Adornado, acting director of DENR-ERDB, signed the MOA for the formalization of the planting of 305,400 quality planting materials in the designated 670 hectares plantation area.

The first launching in this military reservation of the “Adopt a Giant Bamboo” project which serve as good sources for livelihood of soldiers, CAFGUs and the civilians in the communities, was held on July 30, 2014 with National Defense Secretary Voltaire T. Gazmin and Environment and Natural Resources Secretary Ramon J.P. Paje as the guests of honor and speakers.

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