The director of the Technical Unit Executor of Agroforestry Development Projects (UTEPDA), Eliferbo Herasme, highlighted The work carried out by this entity in favor of the recovery of the forested area in several demarcations of the South region and the country.
According to Herasme, the institution he is in charge of reforestation programs, based on coffee, fruit and timber species, in the southern towns of Elías Piña, Barahona, Independencia, Hondo Valle, Juan Santiago, Las Cañitas, Los Fríos, Sabaneta and Sierra de Neiba.
The The director of UTEPDA said that similar projects have been underway for several months and are planned to be developed in Galván and Tamayo, Bahoruco province.
“We will carry out a massive planting of avocado and mango in communities such as Guanarate, El Granado, Bayahonda, Cabeza de ToroThis is accompanied by an extensive reforestation program in communities that, like these, belong to the municipality of Tamayo and that look devastated by the hand of man and natural phenomena that have affected us”, said Eliferbo Herasme. .
In relation to the regulations, technical, administrative and productive tasks, Eliferbo Herasme said that the Technical Execution Unit of Agroforestry Development Projects, UTEPDA, previously attached to the Administrative Ministry of the Presidency , since the beginning of this government administration, it has been a body of the Ministry of the Environment.
n of this unit, fulfilling a delicate mission placed under our responsibility by the President of the Republic, Luis Abinader. And that’s what we’ve been at”, said Herasme when talking with Mario Lara and Vianelo Perdomo, in the Contraparte program that is produced on Hilando Fino TV.