January 16 is Saint Marcel’s day, the saint of the seed growers. That’s for sure a good day to launch the 2024 campaign in the sub-prefecture of Linko.
This will be the third and final year of the reforestation cycle in the Commune Rurale of Linko. Next year sees the start of a new three-year cycle in the neighbouring sub-prefecture of Damaro. But before that, there’s still a lot to do:
- First of all, we need to check that the 2023 work has been completed and that the land reforested to date has been properly marked and protected by effective firebreaks.
- Then we need to repeat the fire prevention and land maintenance instructions.
- This is also an opportunity to highlight the good examples: the model protective strips, the high germination rates, the hedgerows provided, and so on.
- Finally, it’s time to start harvesting seeds, plan delivery dates, identify new plot families and so on
The objective of the 2024 campaign in Linko is to restore more than 500 hectares with a 5’000’000 seeds of 40 native tree species.
It was during this first tour of the villages in the first group that Mrs Saran Keita, in Fanzan, showed us the superb pigeon pea seedlings sown in May 2023, whose harvest looks very promising, as her smile proves:
