Plant this mvule seed
UGANDA IS rapidly losing its tree cover but it is very easy to plant and grow trees. Growing trees is profitable. In urban areas the rental value of a house increases if it has a mature tree nearby.
UGANDA IS rapidly losing its tree cover but it is very easy to plant and grow trees. Growing trees is profitable. In urban areas the rental value of a house increases if it has a mature tree nearby.
In the rural areas mature trees protect the soil and improve agricultural yields.
Yet people are cutting down more trees than they are planting. Much of Uganda’s wood cover is being lost to charcoal and Uganda is forecast to have wood deficit from 2010.
Yet it is easy and cheap to grow trees. Seedlings are available from nurseries and seed from the National Tree Seed Centre in Namanve at very affordable prices. There are many fine trees to plant. Eucalyptus is consistently profitable providing firewood and poles.
But perhaps the finest are the indigenous species mvule and musizi.
They maintain the ecology of Uganda, provide wonderful shade, grow relatively quickly and have an excellent timber value when harvested after 20 or 30 years.
To encourage tree planting in Uganda, The New Vision has collaborated with Tree Talk newspaper to give free packets of mvule seed to the first 1000 readers to write in.
Each packet can make 200 mvule seedlings.
If those 200 seedlings grow to maturity, they could easily be worth sh1b.
Tree Talk regularly sends seed to thousands of schools and pupils have responded by growing masses of new trees around their school compounds.
New Vision readers should now emulate the great example of these schoolchildren by germinating, planting and growing this free mvule seed around their homes and farms.
This will improve their quality of life and also make Uganda a
better place.
In the rural areas mature trees protect the soil and improve agricultural yields.
Yet people are cutting down more trees than they are planting. Much of Uganda’s wood cover is being lost to charcoal and Uganda is forecast to have wood deficit from 2010.
Yet it is easy and cheap to grow trees. Seedlings are available from nurseries and seed from the National Tree Seed Centre in Namanve at very affordable prices. There are many fine trees to plant. Eucalyptus is consistently profitable providing firewood and poles.
But perhaps the finest are the indigenous species mvule and musizi.
They maintain the ecology of Uganda, provide wonderful shade, grow relatively quickly and have an excellent timber value when harvested after 20 or 30 years.
To encourage tree planting in Uganda, The New Vision has collaborated with Tree Talk newspaper to give free packets of mvule seed to the first 1000 readers to write in.
Each packet can make 200 mvule seedlings.
If those 200 seedlings grow to maturity, they could easily be worth sh1b.
Tree Talk regularly sends seed to thousands of schools and pupils have responded by growing masses of new trees around their school compounds.
New Vision readers should now emulate the great example of these schoolchildren by germinating, planting and growing this free mvule seed around their homes and farms.
This will improve their quality of life and also make Uganda a
better place.