A seedling delivery exercise was conducted for 14 weeks, from 15 January, 2018, to 22 April, 2018, to transport seedlings from the contracted nurseries of GRL, Lugarawa, TTSA Mbinga, TTSA Wino, and TTSA Liuli to 52 PFP beneficiary villages as well as to villages supported by the Lugarawa hydroelectric project.
The seedling delivery exercise followed the procedure laid out in the updated 2017/18 TGIS guidelines The guidelines provided benchmark information about all the procedures and roles to be followed in implementing the TGIS. The overall objective of the exercise, as called for in section 2.1 of the document, was to “deliver the seedlings from the nursery supplier to an accessible road head near the planting site without extra charges for the service.”
The total number of seedlings delivered to various villages in the 2017/18 planting season was 3,888,426, including 2,716,101 pine, 893,569 eucalyptus, and 278,756 teak seedlings.
