UPRRIS officials and employees plant various kinds of trees and bamboos in Nueva Ecija watersheds. Contributed photo
CABANATUAN CITY – Ranking employees of the National Irrigation Administration central office joined the simultaneous tree planting activity in various dam watersheds in Nueva Ecija as part of the National Greening Program under administrator Ricardo R. Visaya on Friday.
Engr. Rosalinda B. Bote, department manager of Upper Pampanga River Integrated Irrigation System, said at least 16 NIA public affairs and information staff headed by acting manager Eden Victoria P. Selva and Environment and Watershed Management Section Project and Planning Division took part in planting 500 rambutan and duhat seedlings at a 6,000-square meter area in Upper Tabuating watershed in Barangay Nazareth, Gen. Tinio town.
The activity was also part of the agency’s 58th anniversary celebration.
Also with Bote in the said site were some 75 staff of UPRIIS head office and Division III officials headed by acting division manager Elenita L. Toquero.
Prior to the planting of trees, participants were briefed on the proper planting methods to avoid mortality of the trees to be planted.
In different sites, a total of 1500 seedlings of bayog bamboo, coffee, teak, palosapis, yakal and dungon were also planted by UPRIIS Dam and Reservoir Division staff headed by manager Ernesto D. Ponce, together with UPRIIS Divisions II, IV, V and Interim Division VI during the activity along Decoliat River, Sitio Marikit East, Barangay Lublub, Castañeda.
A hundred UPRIIS personnel joined in this site, according to UPRIIS report.
“Similarly conducted was UPRIIS Division I personnel’s tree planting at Macanae watershed area in Lupao, Nueva Ecija,” it added.
