RAFI Conducts Nursery Establishment Training

To equip its partner with the capability to run a nursery, the Ramon Aboitiz Foundation Inc. (RAFI) GREENIN Philippines Program conducted a nursery establishment and seedling production training to Notre Dame University (NDU) last July 26 and 27.

Selected student-officers taking up National Service Training Program (NSTP) classes, representatives from the People’s Organization, and some faculty and staff of the school attended the two-day training.

Lectures included seed sources and propagation, transplanting, soil medium ratio and mixing, roles of worms as decomposers, worm beddings, worm foods, nursery layout, harvesting, and type of worms used in vermi composting.     The actual workshop and demonstration was held at the new nursery facility inside the NDU campus.

The school’s nursery facilities and construction materials of NDU is funded by Cotabato Lights & Power Company.

NDU is a partner of RAFI and a member of the Catholic Educational Association of the Philippines (CEAP).

Notre Dame University students apply their learning from the training on nursery establishment in the school’s new nursery facility. (Contributed photo)

This initiative of RAFI is under its Integrated Development unit’s Generation REdemption, and Expansion of Natural resources INitiatives in the Philippines (GREENIN) Program to ensure environmental sustainability by reversing the loss of environmental resources through the utilization of native tree species in its interventions in restoring and rehabilitating degraded forests and idle lands.

GREENIN Philippines Program is one of the programs under RAFI’s Integrated Development focus area. It aims to address environmental problems by undertaking initiatives for the protection, conservation, and rehabilitation of our country’s forests. RAFI’s other focus areas are Micro-finance & Entrepreneurship, Culture & Heritage, Leadership & Citizenship, and Education.

For more information about the GREENIN Philippines Program, please contact 418-7234 loc. 515 and look for Noel Fornolles, or visit www.rafi.org.ph or www.facebook.com/rafi.org.ph, or follow @rafi.org.ph on Twitter.