Bio-diversity

San Antonio is a caser Pejiballe or belonging to the district Pejiballe , Cant n n P rez Zeled province of San Jos . It is located 36 meters South East Kil San Isidro Zeled n P rez , has around 1500 to 2000 people engaged mostly to the cultivation of coffee . The very low prices of coffee have made San Antonio a place where a lot of women should care for their families and farms as their husbands have gone to the United States in search of new job opportunities . In this caser or anus 2001 the Association of Women of San Antonio which aim to find a way to raise money to help the economy comes to your home , then begin work on the production of n pl ntulas in a nursery forest . At first the group of women was part of the Cooperative COOPEASSA area but then by the need to obtain a jur dica personer to opt for assistance from the IMAS - FUNDECOOPERACION project separate from that unit and begin work as the Association of Women San Antonio de Pejiballe . The aforementioned project provides the b sico to initiate the production of n pl ntulas , then the Peasant Forestry Development program gives them t DECAFOR technique assistance for one year , under this process, women manage to increase the production of 5000 trees to n 40,000 trees per year. At this time the Association has moments di cult because most of the trees produced were delivered last year to COOPEASSA so that partitioned between reforesters (as) who participate in the Payment for Environmental Services as part of the cooperative far women have not received a penny from the sale of these trees , but his desire to continue the work has to sustain your project. The land where they have been developing the project is owned by the Church Cat lica from maximum pr month nursery facilities na transfer ownership of Mr. Savino Carmen Hidalgo Mora which is at LAYOUT n to lease the land for five years and renewable while the Association succeeds in acquiring land . As a goal the Association has proposed to consolidate their productive part b musicians integrating two aspects to this process: Community and environment. Therefore the following proposal s main objective : Strengthen the environmental production project entitled : Forest Nursery San Antonio de Pejiballe order to make a trav s the same community environmental activities to introduce (as) farmers (as) in different production alternatives ny n recovery of areas affected by deforestation , itself a work n option for members of the Association and their families to create. The embeddedness of the community in the project - : To meet the above objective activities were planned. - Start n recovery of past hurricane ravaged areas in the spec cally part of the basin ro T rraba that is located in San Antonio as fencing . - Creation of demonstration plots n Agroforestry Systems ( SAF ) as an environmental productive option n . Strengthening aspects technicians , administrative and infrastructure nursery T. The proposal is designed to make efforts for biodiversity and forest ecosystem recovery n .

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