By Vanessa Reksodipoetro | Project Leader
For the past three months, the main focus of the haze project has been the purchasing of an equipment called a brush chipper, the final printing of posters and banners, the conclusion of the village workshops and the monitoring of the compost making and trees planting in schools.
The purpose of the brush chipper is to support the efforts in changing the practice of “slash and burn” to “slash and mulch”. The machine will be shared among the communities who own land and practice burning land on an annual basis. Based on a survey that was done a few months ago, the communities are open to an alternative solution to burning. Once YUM has worked out the running costs, this program will be promoted in a pilot village first before going into all the other villages.
The making of the posters and banners were designed by creative agency "Begin For Good" and will be used when necessary, especially once the dry season comes back. You can see the results in the photos below.
As for the school workshops, they were completed with a total of 781 youngsters participating – 401 girls and 380 boys . Fruit trees have been planted by the students in 8 schools and are striving well and the compost in buckets is also progressing well.
The workshops for adults have also been completed with a total attendance of 271 people - 163 women and 108 men. A real interest was expressed during discussions about the agroforestry video presented (click to see the video “Life in Syntropy”) and from 119 participants present that own 1-2 Ha of land, 103 expressed interest in implementing a similar model in case YUM could successfully develop a model adapted to local conditions. For the past six months, the YUM Agro project management has started researching this area. The people’s interest and the reality of annual fires is guiding and molding the way to YUM's possible work in the region and possibly finding an answer in this agroforestry system.
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