Some 300 employees of Davao Light & Power Co. planted a total of 7 thousand seedlings of various tree varieties last Saturday, July 20, 2013 in a 7-hectare slippery hills of Upper Kibalang, Marilog District, Davao City.
The tree planting activity is one of the Aboitiz-owned electric distribution utility’s responses to the government’s call for support to its national greening program. It is also the company’s initiative on helping address the effects of climate change.
Davao Light’s Community Relations Department (Comrel) which is the point unit for the tree planting project, said the seedlings include those of narra, rubber, durian, cacao and mahogany. Rubber, cacao and durian are intended to help farmer tenurial rights holders as these are cash producers in barely 3 to five years time if the seedlings planted are taken cared of very well.
The area planted since 2011 now totals 28 hectares. It is part of the 500 hectares adopted by Davao Light from the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR). It is a component of over 1300 hectares designated as a Community-based Forest Management (CBFM) area by the DENR.
To date Davao Light and some of its partner organizations have planted over 32 thousand trees including those planted on an 8-hectare property at Punta Dumalag and along the Magtuod-New Carmen-New Valencia road to Calinan in 2009 and 2010, respectively. By latest inventory the survival rate was computed at 80 percent of the total planted.
The employees were led by no less than its top executives based in Davao City namely Art M. Milan, Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, Bien Garcia, VP for Administration and VP for Retail Services for Aboitiz Power, Engr. Rodger Velasco. VP for Engineering of Davao Light and COO of Cotabato Light. Assistant Vice Presidents, Department Managers, Supervisors, Panabo Branch employees led by Branch Manager and AVP Reynold Felix and down the ranks of Kaibigans were also there to lend their hands.
The tree planting activities were simultaneous group wide all over the country among Aboitiz companies.
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