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Bawdita htaung special greening Project

The project is located about 12 miles (19.31 km) east of Monywa Township, Monywa District, Sagaing Region, Bawdi ta htaung greening project area covers 20520 acres (10125.23 ha) in area and has the peak elevation of 1962 feet598.02 m) above the sea level. Origional forest type of this project area is tropical dry deciduous forest. Soils are very poor having fine sand, stony soils, gravel soils and rocky soils. The tree species naturally grown in the area are, among others,Terminalia oliveri (Than),Tectona hamiltoniana (Dahat), Terminalia alata (Htauk-kyant),Shorea robusta (In-gyin), Acacia Arabica Wild.syn (Subyu), Acacia catechu (Sha), Vachellia leucophloea (Htanaung), Ribes uva-crispa (Ze-phyu), Grewia polygama (Tayaw),Hiptage benghalensis (Bein-new/Helicopter flower), Luffa aegyptiaca (Tha-byut) and etc.

Bawdi ta htaung special greening project is a 5-year project starting from 2019-2020 to 2023-2024 fiscal year. The project planned to plant 33500 trees per year in the first 4-year period of the project and in the last year (the fifth year of the project) will focus on maintenance operations. Along with tree planting, other land restoration/ rehabilitation activities such as conservation remaining natural forests, soil and water conservation and environmental education programs will also be carried out under the project as mentioned in the following table.

Project Title ​Activity Target (Annual)
Bawdi ta htaung special greening project

(Monywa Township)

(a)Planting activities

(a.1) Special greening planting

(a.2) Gap planting in natural forest conservation

(a.3) Vetiver grass planting

(b) Conservation of remaining natural forests

(b.1) Natural regeneration

(c) Education and awaraness raising activity on use of fuelwood substitutes

(c.1) Efficient stoves distribution

(c.2) Sandalwood and Shaw phyu (Sterculia versicolor) seedlings distribution for public tree planting

(d) Conservation of soil and water resources

(d.1) Construction of loose stone small check dams

(d.2)Brushwood small check dam

(d.3) Small pond

(d.4) One-sided closed dam

(d.5) Rainwater collection tank

(d.6) Underground water (Tube well)

(e) Construction activities (Supportive activities)

(e.1) Construction of plantation camps, stores and presentation halls

(e.2) Construction of nurseries and watering structures (tube wells, tanks, pipe lines and pumping mechines)

(e.3)  Construction of fire guard towels

 

30000 plants

3500 plants

2000 plants

1000 ac

100 ac

12 times

 

390 stoves

6981 seedlings

 

 

6 dams

 

 

8 dams

2 ponds

1 dam

8 tanks

1well

Tant Kyi Taung Region Special Greening Project

The project site is located about 35 miles (56.33 km) west of the Pakokku township, Pakokku district, Magway region, Tant Kyi Taung Special Greening project area covers 36910 acres (14936.95 ha) and has the peak elevation of 1040 ft (316.99 m) above the sea level. Origional forest type of this project area is tropical dry deciduous forest. Soils are very poor having fine sand, stony soils, compact soils and gravel soils. The tree species naturally grown in the area are Tectona hamiltoniana (Dahat), Terminalia oliveri (Than), Acacia catechu (Sha), Lannea coromandelica (Nabae), Vachellia leucophloea (Htanaung), Capparis flavicans (Saungkyan), Millusa velutina (Tha-pywut-gyi), Holptelea integrifolia (Phyaut-seik), Boscia variabills (Thamone), Sapium baccatum (Gwe), Hiptage benghalensis (L.) Kurz (Swae-ni), Erythrina arborescens (Kathit), Shorea robusta (In-gyin), Prosopis juliflora (Gandayasein) and etc.

Tant Kyi Taung Region special greening project is a 5-year project starting from 2019-2020 to 2023-2024 fiscal year. The project planned to plant 50000 trees per year in the first 4-year of the project and in the last year (the fifth year of the project) will focus on maintenance operations. Along with tree planting, other land restoration/ rehabilitation activities such as conservation remaining natural forests, soil and water conservation and environmental education programs will also be carried out under the project as mentioned in the following table.

Project Title ​Activity Target (Annual)
Tant Kyi Taung region special greening project

(Pakokku Township)

(a)Planting activities

(a.1) Special greening planting

(a.2) Gap planting in forest conservation

(b) Conservation of remaining natural forests

(b.1) Natural regeneration

(c) Education and awaraness raising activity on use of fuelwood substitutes

(c.1) Efficient stoves distribution

(c.2) Pamphlet distribution

(c.2) Sandal wood seedlings distribution for public tree planting

(d) Conservation of soil and water resources

(d.1) Construction of loose stone small check dams

(d.2)  Brushwood small check dam

(d.3) Small pond

(d.4) one-sided closed dam

(e) Construction activities (supportive activities)

(e.1) Construction of plantation camps, stores and presentation halls

(e.2) Construction of nurseries and watering structures (tube wells, concrete and fiber tanks, pipe lines and pumping mechines)

 

50000 plants

3500 plants

1000 ac

100 ac

12 times

 

390 stoves

232phmphlets

345 seedlings

 

 

15 dams

 

65 dams

5 ponds

10 dam

 

Shwe Bone Taung Special Greening Activity

Shwe Bone Taung special greening region is located about 1 mile north of Chauk township and along the easten part of the Ayeyarwaddy River and Chauk-Nyaung U road. The famous Shwe Bone Taung pagoda is situated at the peak point with of 535 ft (163.07 m) above sea level. The total area of the project site where special greening activities are being carried out is 12379 acres (5009.60 ha). Origional forest type of this project area is tropical dry forest. Soils are very poor having sandy loam soil. The tree species naturally grown in the area are Oxytenanthera albociliata (Warnwe), Khaung-lay, Vachellia leucophloea (Htanaung), Acacia catechu (Sha), Prosopis juliflora (Gandayasein), Millusa velutina (Tha-pywut-gyi), Tectona hamiltoniana (Dahat), premnapyramidata (Kyun-pho), Tha-paut, Millettia brandisiana (Thit-bagan), Hiptage benghalensis (L.) Kurz (Swae-ni) and etc. As the micro-climate of around Shwe Bone Taung area is dry with low rainfall and as of annual rainfall, the area has 37 rainy days and 23.22 inches (589.79 mm) of rainfall in average per year within the 10-year period from 2010 to 2019.
Since 2000, to be able to use for greening activities, water from Ayeyarwady River is being pumped to 2 concrete tanks located on B3 rise having storage capacity of 20000 gallons (90922 liters) using electric power. The establishment of Neem plantation for Shwe Bone Taung greening purpose has started since 2001 and 3850 acres (1558.04 ha) have already been established up to 2012-2013 fiscal year. As part of the special greening activities, gap planting and supplementary planting with indigenous Neem trees using irrigated water from Ayeyarwady River is being implemented from 2010-2011 fiscal year to 2018-2019 fiscal year, are mentioned as below.

Sr. Fiscial Year No. of trees planted
1 2010-2011 60,000
2 2011-2012 75,450
3 2012-2013 79,413
4 2013-2014 30,901
5 2014-2015 10,296
6 2015-2016 31,470
7 2016-2017 10,500
8 2017-2018 10,500
9 6 months of 2018 14,000
10 2018-2019 17,200
  Total 339,730

A total of 18650 plants will be planted for special greening purpose in Shwe Bone Taung site, Chauk Township in the fiscal year 2019-2020 (in 2020 rainy season).

Yenanchaung Greening Complex Zone Project

Greening Complex Zone Project has been being implemented between mile post no. (1/7) and no. (8/0) alongside the bypass road of Yenanchang township, Magway District, Magway Region. The project will be implemented for 5-year period from 2019-2020 fiscal year to 2023-2024. The project site is situated inside Yin Ma Chaung protected public forest (2430 acres/ 992.69 ha) and Nat Kan Oo protected public forest (1740 acres/ 704.15 ha). Project area is of poor soil quality and trees are very sparsely growing (almost bare land). Therefore, this project aims to restore the forests and trees on this bare lands and to re-green the roadside reserved forests and thus to be supportive for socio-economic development of the local communities.

The activities to be implemented by the project are as follows:

Project Title ​Activities Quantity (per year)
Yenanchaung Greening Complex Zone Project

(Yenanchaung Township)

(a)     Planting activities

(a-1) Special greening planting

(a-2) Bio Fencing to the supplementary planting plots (Wild Pineapple and Lady of the Night Cactus (Cereus hexagonus(L) Mill)

(a-3) Gap planting in natural forest conservation

(a-4) Planting Hybrid Acacia and Pin-Lai-ka-vie (Casuarina equisetifolia)

(a-5) Planting Vetiver grass

(b) Conservation of Remaining Natural Forests

(b-1) Natural Regeneration

(c) Education and awareness raising activity on use of fuelwood substitutes

(c-1) Distributing efficient stoves

(c-2) Distributing hand outs to the public

(d) Conservation of soil and water resources

(d-1) Loose stone small check dam

(d-2) Brushwood small check dam

(d-3) Small pond

(d-4) One-sided closed dam

(e) Construction (supportive activities)

(e.1) Construction of plantation camps, field staff’s house and presentation halls

(e-2) Construction of fence and road

(e.3) Construction of nurseries and watering structures (tube wells, tanks, pipe lines and pumping mechines)

 

12000 plants

1000 plants

 

 

 

 

3500 plants

 

1000 plants

 

5000 plants

2000 acres

 

200 acres

2 times

 

482 stoves

482 sheets

 

 

 

8 dams

16 dams

2 ponds

1 dam

 

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