Not to go all Shugart on y'all...
One of the big problems municipalities have in these reforestation programs they carry out is how to get people to protect plants after they've been put in the ground. One municipality I visited up north pays a monthly fee for each tree that survives, but these guys down here in Cusco have another good idea.
They plant fruit trees.
By planting fruit trees, the local people have an incentive to protect the trees over the long term, since they stand to gain from the eventual harvest and sale of the fruit.
Something like 30,000 peach trees are about ready to be planted in Pucyura.
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Thats cool, my parents have an apple tree in their back yard from when the property was a fruit and poultry farm, unfortunately its dying so my father and I are going to try to graft some of it to get a new tree to grow, since the variety is an heirloom one.
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