Part II Community-Based Forest Management Program - ppmrn

SOUND IMPLEMENTATION AND MAINTENANCE STRATEGIES/ACTIVITIES
2,500 hectares of land as permanent forest cover. Furthermore, in view
of deviation per land use plan, the estimated soil erosion increased from
303,455.92 tons/year to 390,898.39 tons/year as computed below:
LAND USE
AREA
AVERAGE
EROSION
TOTAL EROSION
(tons/year)
Reforestation
Production Forest 1,545.00 32.50 50,212.99
Protection Forest 349.00 83.9 29,281.11
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Total 1,894.00 79,494.10
ANR 140.00 7.72 1,080.80
Rattan Plantation 914.00 7.72 7,056.08
Agro-forestry 2,296.61 108.02 248,079.81
Agro-silvipastoral 500.11 108.02 54,021.88
Bamboo 151.00 7.72 1,165.72
TOTAL 390,898.39
The CENRO–Malaybalay claimed that this action was supported with
PO resolutions and that claimants, despite slope category, prefer agroforestry
component than any other component since they could still
utilize vacant spaces for root crops or seasonal crops to sustain their
livelihood. They also claimed that POs were encouraged to implement
Natural Vegetative Strips (NVS) in agro-forestry component as one of
the mitigating measures from soil erosion.
The team understands that the DENR has also to consider the demands
of the POs. However, such actions should not be to the extent of
sacrificing the very objective of the project.
Under the DENR’s Primer on Soil and Water Conservation (SWC), the
ways of controlling soil erosions include cultural, physical and
biological methods while the factors promoting soil erosion are:
• Kaingin farming
• One-crop system
• Kind of farming
• Intensity of rainfall
• Slope steepness and length
• Soil erodibility
Ocular inspections of CBFMA areas disclosed that inappropriate
upland cultivation is widely practiced regardless of slope gradient and
that even newly planted trees were cut allegedly to give way to upland
farming as shown in the following pictures:
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