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Showing posts with label Pucyura. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Pucyura. Show all posts
Saturday, April 4, 2009
Monday, March 30, 2009
Fruit Trees
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.
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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