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April 15, 2015

Planting Fruit Trees campaign update: January to March 2015

Focus: Deforestation is still a huge problem

  • The Malawians, like many other Africans, have an urgent need to set fire to almost all forests in the belief that it will improve agriculture in the following year
  • Farmers indiscriminately cut down trees and set fire to them where they have fallen
  • The problem is that only the top soil is fertile - and this is inevitably quickly washed away from the steep slopes once the trees have been cut down and cleared
  • Although not the entire solution, growing new fruit trees helps to educate communities about trees and their economic value
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Planting Fruit Trees campaign update: January to March 2015