By Vivian Vollmann Tinoco | Communications - Sinal do Vale
Last month we checked in on a reforestation project that we started in November. We planted twenty types of native species and a total of eight hundred tree seedlings. This reforestation area is located around a spring and will attract more water to enrichen it. Every seedling has a pigeon pea, a type of bean that grows fast, planted next to it. This bean provides shade for the growing seedling and fixes nitrogen in the soil.
In May we did a maintenance check up on that area and the whole SINAL team came together to help. We filled up two containers with our SINAL made biofertilizer. It is organic and prepared with local flora. Combined, it provides the perfect mixture of NPK - nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium -that supports plant growth for our type of soil.
When we reached the reforestation area the team split up. One part went first and documented the growth of every tree, line by line. Some of them have already reached a height of half a meter! The rest of the team went afterwards applying the biofertilizer on every seedling. It was exciting to see the achievement of the forest slowly closing up again. Our next maintenance check will be coming soon!
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