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==[[Southern Leyte News]]==
==[[Southern Leyte News]]==
'''National Greening Program gaining headway'''
'''31 sitios in So. Leyte awaits NEA lighting project'''
*Source: http://www.tempo.com.ph/2012/national-greening-program-gaining-headway/#.TzPmiU6PXJc
*Source: http://www.pia.gov.ph/news/index.php?article=1301328835923
*Feb 9th, 2012
*Friday 10th of February 2012
:by  www.tempo.com.ph
:by  Marcelo M. Pedalino




Manila, Philippines – Eastern Visayas (Region was selected as pilot site for the 2012 national Greening Program (NGP), to highlight the region’s record of exceeding its targeted number of hectares with tree seedlings planted since the program was launched on May 2011. Eastern Visayas, consisting of six provinces – Biliran, Eastern Samar, Leyte, Northern Samar, Samar and Southern Leyte – exceeded its 2011 NGP target. It produced 4,052,500 seedlings and planted 8,105 hectares with indigenous tree species and fruit-bearing trees. Eastern Visayas has been given a higher target of 12,365 hectares to be planted with trees this year.
MAASIN CITY, Southern Leyte, Feb. 10 (PIA)  -- Residents in 31 remote sitios all over this province can expect to avail the services of the local power firm Southern Leyte Electric Cooperative (SOLECO) anytime this year because of the rural electricity program of the National Electrification Administration (NEA).
The Bicol Region (Region 5) also surpassed its 2011 target by 12 percent with 6,303 hectares of open and denuded forestland planted with close to 4 million tree seedlings. When the NGP was launched in Bicol in May last year, stakeholders in the region planted 3.9 million tree seedlings in 6,303 hectares of open and denunded forestland. Camarines Sur led with 2,102,578 tree seedlings planted in 3,005 hectares.
Benson Mindajao, Member Development Officer of SOLECO, told Philippine Information Agency (PIA) yesterday that the list was already submitted to NEA before Christmas last year for implementation which he hoped to be undertaken sooner.
The Department of National Defense (DND) allocated 12,000 hectares for the establishment of tree nursery sites in military reservations nationwide, including Fort Magsaysay in Nueva Ecija, Kibaritan Military Reservation in Bukidnon and Lanao del Sur, Camp Peralta in Capiz, and Villaviciosa Military Reservation in Abra. In coordination with the Department of Education (DepEd), Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR), and the Department of Agriculture (DA), the DND is also propagating bamboo plantations.
Last year, also before Christmas, two sitios were energized, Sitio Mangmang and Bagong Silang, all of Macrohon town, with a total cost of P 1.2 million mostly subsidized by the electrification agency, benefiting more than the minimum limit of 30 household connections, Mindajao said.
The NGP targets the planting of 1.5 billion tree seedlings in 1.5 million hectares nationwide from 2011 to 2016. priority areas include mangrove and protected areas, ancestral domain, civil and military areas, and urban areas under the LGU greening plan. For 2012, the target is 200,000 hectares. The goal is a survival rate of 80 percent by tapping sound upland practices and confining identified planting sites to areas where there are communities that can maintain and ensure growth of the seedlings into mature trees.
For this year 2012, the total cost for energizing the 31 sitios or Puroks amounted to P 12,165,382.80 with SOLECO shouldering the labor component, among others, while the materials costing more than P 9 million was handled by NEA, Mindajao disclosed.
The overall objectives of the National Greening Program are poverty reduction, food security, biodiversity conservation, and environment mitigation.
This will be under its Subsidiary Electric Program or the Barangay Line Enhancement Program that was pushed aggressively for lighting all far-flung sitios nationwide as one of the pet priorities of President Benigno Aquino III, he added.
Mindajao also said that four out of the 31 sitios were located in Maasin City, the rest distributed in the 18 other towns of the province.  These were Sitio Gawad Kalinga in barangay Combado, Sitio Alpha in San Rafael, Purok Anahawan in barangay Libhu, and Sitio Upper Kandiis, also of Libhu.
In December, City Tourism Officer Royeno Segovia informed PIA  that all farthest sitios were already reached by an electrification program initiated by the city government.
When told about this, Mindajao said new sitios kept propping up every year which needed extension of their existing lines.
In fact, for this year, aside from the 31 awaiting NEA’s go-signal, about 40 potential sitios are longing for power connectivity, and resolutions from barangays on this matter kept coming, Mindajao further said. (Marcelino Pedalino - PIA8 Southern Leyte)


==Photo Gallery of Southern Leyte, Philippines==
==Photo Gallery of Southern Leyte, Philippines==
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