BAYOG, Zamboanga del Sur – The local government unit of Bayog in partnership with the Mindanao Alliance of Self-Help Societies-Southern Mindanao Educational Cooperative Center (MASS-SPECC) through the Timbermines Multi-Purpose Cooperative (TIMMULCO) recently conducted a tree planting activity at Glupa Gulian Agro Tourism Park, Sitio Quibranza, Kahayagan, this municipality.
The activity also gained the
support of Mindanao Development Authority (MinDa) and the Department of
Environment and Natural Resources (DENR).
An estimated area of 2.5
hectares of the park was planted with rubber trees, with more than 500 tree
planters composed of rank and file employees of Bayog, DepEd teachers, barangay
officials, faculty and students of the JH Cerilles State College and
cooperative organizations.
Mayor Leonardo L. Babasa, Jr. in his message said, “we plant trees to support the National Greening Program of the present administration to address the issues on global warming and climate change which we are facing today.”
“I urge you to do some
mitigation now before it is too late. Let us help in the advocacy to instill
people’s awareness and to help ensure environmental sustainability. Let us work
together and plant trees even in our own backyards,” Mayor Babasa said.
“This is not only for us but also for our children, for our children’s children and for generations yet to come,” Babasa added.
He expressed his thanks to MASS SPECC for choosing his town as the planting site of this program among other municipalities in the Zamboanga Peninsula.
The signing of a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) between the Bayog-LGU and TIMMULCO capped the day which provided for the latter’s funding assistance in the amount of P25,000 per hectare for three years for the nurturing of the trees. (ALT/BAG/CAL/PIA9)