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Philippine News: Largest nursery in RP is in Fort Ramon Magsaysay
 
 

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Monday, June 18, 2007
 

Fort Ramon Magsaysay in Palayan City, Nueva Ecija boasts of having the largest nursery in RP aside from being the the largest military reservation of the Armed Forces of the Philippines. The facility is supervised by Seventh Infantry Division Training Unit commander Lt. Col. Jesus Sarsagat. He said that the nursery covered 3,200 square meters of land inside the military reservation.

Sarsagat related that they have been planting and distributing the seedlings for two years now. The nursery is housed in a nylon netting- covered enclosure for protection. The seedlings will be distributed to private individuals, non-government organizations and local government units. The seedlings includes different varieties of hardwood, fruit-bearing and flowering trees like April Shower, Hong Kong Tree and Fire Tree, which will be used to beautify roadsides.

The nursery in Fort Magsaysay is larger than the nurseries in the Department of Environment and Natural Resources and the Department of Agriculture. The nursery uses a gravity-driven drip irrigation system with the water coming from the nearby Cordero Dam. "Even those from agricultural schools" like UP Los Baņos and Central Luzon State University "claim that our nursery is bigger than theirs," said Sarsagat.

The seedlings were mainly taken cared of by the new recruits which improves the soldiers deep sense of commitment in protecting the environment. These is what the soldiers do when they are not training for combat to while away the time. They are also raising farm animals like chickens, goats, turkeys and geese and even ostriches.

 
 
 
 
 

 

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