NATIONAL GREENING PROGRAM

Executive order no.26

What is the National Greening Program (NGP)?

Executive Order 26 Describes the NGP as a program seeking to plant some 1.5 billion trees covering about 1.5 million hectares for a period of six (6) years from 2011 to 2016, in lands of the public domain. 

This lands includes forest lands, mangrove and protected areas, ancestral domains, civil and military reservations, and urban areas.

The NGP Targets

YEAR	TARGET
Year 1: 100,000 ha.	100 M
Year 2: 200,000 ha.	200 M
Year 3: 300,000 ha.	300 M
Year 4: 300,000 ha.	300 M
Year 5: 300,000 ha.	300 M
Year 6: 300,000 ha.	300 M
1.5 Million hectares	1.5 Billion seedlings

All in all, this target is more than the accomplishment over the past 25 years.

What difference can the NGP make?

•There are about 5 million poor upland families who earn an average annual income Php22, 995. These

families already represent  1/3 of the entire Philippine population.

Built into the NGP are cash incentives for families or community that will be stewards of the

plantations there will also be benefits from processing /marketing produce or crops.

•Across the Philippines are 8 million hectares of unproductive , open, denuded, or degraded forestlands.

A hectare of land in Mindanao can earn Php 120,000 per  year. Even at only Php 10,000 earnings /

hectare/year, the 8 million hectares could already generate  Php  80 billion per year.

•We are importing a whopping 3 million metric tons per year of wheat, 1.2 million metric tons of rice,

and 125.000 metric tons of soya, among others.

Imagine : (1) how much we would save if we could source that locally; (2) how much wood/paper and other forest by-products we would get for national use; and (3) how much the country could earn from exports of such products.

What will make it work?

Social Mobilization

The government private sector, Peoples Organization, Non Government Organizations and Civil Society join hands in the activities of the NGP- as volunteer planters long term plantation stewards or donors.

For the first time, the NGP is driven, not just by one but by all government agencies through a National Convergence Initiative.

Harmonization of Initiatives

The NGP is a “ first” as it consolidates and harmonizes all greening efforts, such as the Upland Development Program, Green Philippine Highways, Luntiang Pilipinas, and other similar activities of the government, private sector, Local Government Units, and the Civil Society.

Provision of Incentives

All proceeds from agro forestry plantations, duly accounted by the DENR, shall accrue to the NGP beneficiary communities. This shall be given priority in the Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) Program of Department of Social Welfare and Development.

Use of Appropriate Science and Technology (S&T)

Target areas and inputs will be identified;
 by land-use optimize (determining site-specific crops /trees and markets);seedling quality ensured; an organic/biofertilizers, such as Mycorrhizal fungi and vermi-composting, employed.

NOW,  THEREFORE,  I,

BENIGNO  C.  AQUINO

 III,  President of the

 Philippines, by virtue of

 the powers vested in me

by law, do herby order

and declare the  

implementation of the

 National Greening  Program

(NGP) As a government

NGP Objectives

HUMAN SECURITY

Increased household incomes

Enhanced environmental stewardship

Improved general well-being of communities

ECONOMIC SECURITY

Increased economic activity

Increased interest in technology and

Business development

Increased production of crops and

Forest-based materials

ECOLOGICAL SECURITY

Increased environmental stability

Sustained provision of ecosystem goods and services

Be a part of the NGP now!

Register online as a volunteer tree planter.

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