Indigenous Tree Seedling Purchase – November 2010 Report

 

By Silvester Mkamaganga, Forester at Wildlife Works Carbon 13 November 2010

TREE SEEDLINGS PURCHASE INTRODUCTION

The Kasigau Corridor REDD project has now created an economic incentive for the landowners and communities within the corridor to protect their forest. Wildlife Works will be working with the landowners and local communities to implement forest management plans that exclude the destructive use of forest resources. In that local communities are encouraged to raise indigenous tree seedlings in their own home made nursery in different containers and will be purchased by Wildlife Works for nurturing them to the right size then they will be taken back to the communities to be planted to the degraded land, for the purpose of increase tree cover which will help to reduce forest degradation.

 

OBJECTIVES

The objective is to purchase indigenous tree seedlings from the community farmers in which they have propagated and raise them in different containers to be taken to the nursery for nurturing them to the right size for planting program in their areas.

PURCHASING

The purchasing of the tree seedlings commenced at Marasi area where we concentrated on the first day and purchased 6,149 tree seedlings. The other days we moved to other areas including Marungu, Bondeni, Chamani, Rukanga, Bungule, Kajire and Talio. We covered Marungu Hill Mount Kasigau and Lower Sagalla Hill. The species mix we collected include Acacia nilotica, Acacia robusta, Acacia mellifera, Balanite aegyptica, Lannea, Commifora Africana, Delanox elata and other indigenous species, In total we managed to purchase 29,043 tree seedlings. The strategy we used in seedling purchase we were moving to points of collection which were close to the road. The farmers who had tree seedlings far from the collection points, had to transport them to the nearest collection point, due to bad roads and bad terrain. It was also our mandate to assess the tree seedlings if they were ready to be purchased and transported to our tree nursery in Maungu.

 

 

 

 

 

DISCUSSIONS

This time we got a huge purchase compared to the previous ones. The highest seller emerged to Mr Mliwa with 3, 986 tree seedlings and the lowest was Mr Mwangere with 5 tree seedlings. The ones with the lowest seedlings could due to dry spell which killed most of the seedlings.

The activity went on well although there were some challenges here and there. These challenges included:

I.         Under budgeting and the nursery owners had high expectation of high sales and hence we had to apologize for the inconveniences.

II.         Some of the tree seedlings were not ready for purchasing and some of the owners were trying to force, but we had to leave them because most of them could die on the way to the nursery and hence we would have incurred a lot of loss on our side.

III.         Some roads were in very bad condition, we had to find ways of reaching the purchasing points.

IV. The duration set for collection and purchases of different areas were very short compared to the work on the ground, hence we had to extend the duration in some areas and this affected a lot on the time and energy input to the communities and they complained a lot.

We did apologize for the inconveniences we caused.

 

CONCLUSION

Tree seedling purchase to the community it is an important part of the Carbon project so we have to reduce as many challenges as possible to smoothen this activity. We propose that there should be some survey prior to planning and budgeting is done. We should also discourage disinformation and encourage the local communities to come for the right information from our offices. We should also set specific collection points which are practical for us and allow the more isolated areas in the Project Zone to benefit from the cash flow it brings.

The summary of the tree seedling purchase

Mr Clinton Mliwa our highest tree supplier with his son on their tree seedling stock at Marasi area with 3,986 seedlings purchased.

 

	Supplier	Locality	Total tree seedlingsPer supplier
1.	W.Mwikamba	Marasi	1672
2.	C.Mliwa	Marasi	3986
3.	P.John	Marasi	216
4.	E.Mwandigha	Marasi	275
5.	N.Mswahili	Marasi	187
6.	G.Mswahili	Marasi	140
7.	J.Kitatu	Marasi	408
8.	N.Makuto	Marasi	270
9.	F.Ndenge	Marasi	10
10.	A.Mswahili	Marasi	116
11.	H.John	Marasi	179
12.	G.Chao	Marasi	36
13.	J.Ngati	Marasi	126
14.	E.Kanyeki	Marasi	287
15.	Kulii Ndile	Marasi	788
16.	Ngonyo Boni	Bondeni	462
17.	M.Ng’endo	Bondeni	1165
18.	C.Mwakitau	Marungu	38
19.	C.Ali	Marungu	55
20.	W.Mwakina	Marungu	1325
21.	F.Mwadime	Marungu	89
22.	F.Mwakina	Marungu	160
23.	L.Mwakina	Marungu	513
24.	H.Mwakio	Marungu	10
25.	Kalaghe M	Marungu	103
26.	M.Baraka	Marungu	156
27.	B.Mwanyika	Marungu	15
28.	Mwandoe	Marungu	238
29.	N.Obare	Marungu	36
30.	G.Muru	Marungu	63
31.	P.Onyango	Marungu	400
32.	T.Shauri	Marungu	717
33.	C.Ngonge	Marungu	262
34.	J.Mrunde	Rukanga	278
35.	M.Machocho	Rukanga	155
36.	J.Zingiri	Rukanga	173
37.	N.Chao	Rukanga	140
38.	P.Hannah	Rukanga	34
39.	P.Wawuda	Rukanga	42
40.	M.Malemba	Rukanga	121
41.	J.Muasya	Rukanga	2550
42.	S.Muthini	Rukanga	762
43.	J.Kabaya	Rukanga	252
44.	C.Mwasingo	Rukanga	58
45.	M.Mchawia	Rukanga	113
46.	E.Mterengo	Rukanga	86
47.	E.Mwakai	Rukanga	22
48.	H.Paul	Rukanga	661
49.	N.Nyiro	Rukanga	531
50.	E.Nyambu	Rukanga	522
51.	J.Nyambu	Rukanga	904
52.	F.Njeghe	Rukanga	65
53.	P.Mwanganda	Rukanga	73
54.	N.Katuu	Rukanga	57
55.	D.Silas	Rukanga	60
56.	Eu.Nyambu	Rukanga	54
57.	M.Mwandango	Rukanga	1008
58.	P.Mwazaule	Rukanga	28
59.	R.Ngali	Bungule	552
60.	F.Mwamvula	Bungule	1740
61.	R.Wali	Bungule	99
62.	M.Mzee	Bungule	20
63.	J.Mwikamba	Bungule	17
64.	L.Kimani	Bungule	151
65.	E.Michael	Bungule	130
66.	C.Mwaluda	Bungule	44
67.	M.Bambanya	Bungule	20
68.	S.Kilongozi	Bungule	121
69.	L.Mwachia	Bungule	254
70.	M.Mwangeje	Bungule	37
71.	F.Njemu	Bungule	463
72.	S.Makenga	Bungule	92
73.	M.Mshai	Bungule	19
74.	T.Mwangere	Bungule	5
75.	I.Mzee	Bungule	100
76.	D.Michael	Bungule	31
77.	A.Mdawida	Bungule	335
78.	N.Mwamvula	Bungule	150
79.	M.Motibo	Kajire	251
80.	S.Mwambela	Kajire	30
81.	J.Mwakima	Kajire	210
82.	M.Mwambonu	Kajire	160
83.	G.Talu	Talio	206
84.	E.Mkamburi	Talio	463
85.	J.Pelu	Talio	56
86.	G.Mwacharo	Talio	35
	TOTALS		29043