The Rotary Club of Antique (Rotary International District 3850) will plant 3,850 fruit-bearing trees within the year as part of ensuring environmental sustainability and food security in the communities.
In an interview on Friday, Carolyn May Deslate, Rotary Club of Antique’s past president and current treasurer, said the “Fruit Trees for Life” project will be launched in Darling Resort in Barangay Tuno in the Municipality of Tibiao on Aug. 30.
“We will initially plant 300 fruit-bearing trees on a resort of a fellow Rotarian,” she said.
She said they were able to request seedlings from the Provincial Environment and Natural Resources Office headed by Cynthia Blancia — such as jackfruit, lanzones, star apple, cacao, and kamagong — that they will be planting in Tibiao.
Other club officers and members are also contributing their own homegrown seedlings for future tree planting activities, she said.
They will also establish a nursery where they could grow seedlings for the project.
“This is actually our first time to plant fruit-bearing trees because before we were planting endemic tree seedlings,” Deslate said.
She said they shifted to fruit-bearing trees because these provide the communities with a source of food.
“We are also planting the seedlings in our fellow Rotarians area so that they could help cultivate, grow and maintain what we had planted,” she said. (PNA)
