Almost everyone in the village makes their living from agriculture. One of the most popular crops is rubber. The difficulty is that if villagers want high-producing rubber seedlings, they have to purchase expensive ones trucked in from outside the province.
We are partnering with two other organizations: Helping Hands and ICRAFT to help the community develop their own, high yield rubber seedlings using a grafting technique know as occulation.
We began by inviting community members down to the coast to see a new, functioning nursery.
The road was a little tricky...
but we made it down and meet with the cooperative running the nursery.
We were given a tour of the nursery and asked a lot of questions about the grafting process.
In the end, the visit seemed to have created a lot of enthusiasm and reinforced the idea that developing a nursery was doable and could even be profitable.
