Environmental policy and administrative management

The project`s implementation plan will be to purchase a total of two hundred and fifty thousand (250 000) Bamboo culms; one hundred and fifty thousand (150 000) Moringa seeds; two hundred and sixty six thousand, one hundred and thirty three thousand, three hundred and thirty four (133 334) Aloe Vera seeds; and seventy five thousand (75 000) Tree Lucerne seedlings, which we will raise during the cause of the project. The project will also focus on immediate income generation through through poultry and rabbit husbandry projects. In line with this, we will purchase two hundred (200) day old chicks with all necessary food and medication they require for their growth to maturity, and utilize existing poultry housing structures in the community to grow them to maturity. We will also purchase one hundred (100) breeding stock rabbits, construct the rabbit hutches and purchase any other inputs such as food, as required. The objective is for the beneficiaries to plant the seedlings we will grow on communal land, and for the Co operative to create a cashflow through the sale of chickens, rabbits and their products to members of the general community in order to enable the project to run properly. We will in turn use compost produced from the manure of the broilers and rabbits to grow the future batches of trees. We will also invest in increasing the broiler chicken production to a weekly output of 200 mature broilers; with the rabbit production also increased by an additional 300 rabbits. Selected members of the Grootvlei community will contribute a minimum of one hectare per plot, to be used by the beneficiaries, and the land used will not be paid for or leased from the plot owners. The one hectare contribution will be received as these plot owners contribution to the development in the community, even though such land will still remain the property of the individual plot owners. The beneficiaries will also plant these Tree Lucerne, Bamboo, Aloe Vera and Moringa seedlings on these plots donated by community members.

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