Quezon, Nueva Vizcaya– FCF Minerals Corporation here will be planting 100 hectares of land with agroforestry trees as part of their Mining Forest Project (MFP) this year.
Ian Moller, FCF Mineral’s General Manager for Sustainability said the MFP seeks to compensate tree cuttings in their project area where a tree cut will require them to plant 100 hectares with various tree species.
“It’s a quite huge effort from our group with the local environment and natural resources office who approves the implementation of the project off site,” he said.
Moller said the MFP will be implemented in identified private lands with farmers and land owners in barangay Didipio using agroforestry and fruit trees.
He added that FCF Minerals Corp. provides the technology and planting materials including assistance to the workers for three years so that the plantation will be properly maintained and managed.
“We have to make sure that the planted trees will have good growth before turning them over to our plant owners,” Moller said.
Forester Tito Tanguilig, Provincial Environment and Natural Resources Officer(PENRO) said the company has already established its tree nurseries in barangay Didipio.
He said the firm’s FMP is one of the projects being monitored by the Multi-partite Monitoring Team (MMT) to ensure its compliance with their commitments and mining regulations, among others.