Palawan Tropical Forestry Protection Programme

Programme Components

Agriculture and Livelihood

Stressing the need to protect the forest and improve the standard of living of the donor communities in priority catchment areas, the Programme implemented various agricultural projects in key areas within the catchments. Seven of which have been successfully completed in 2001.

The Programme introduced and implemented, with the support of the community, fruit-tree planting activities and cash crop production to preserve the forest and at the same time, provide them a stable source of income for the community. Cash crop production includes vegetable, banana, coffee and pepper productions.

About 55 new micro-projects (39 in the south and 16 in the north) have been implemented, targeting 50% of the total upland population.

The banana weevil became a serious problem for the lakatan-banana production, an income generating project supported by the Programme. With assistance from the Institute of Plant Breeding-University of the Philippines at Los Baños (IPB-UPLB), management strategies against banana weevil were formulated and distributed to catchment teams.