One of the community tree nurseries
Sunrise over Lake Malawi
Chitenji for sale in the market
Planting a tree at Mvwalamane
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NEWS: FRUIT TREE GROWING PROJECT — AN EXCITING START! February 2008
 
Typical fruit tree nursery
 

In June 2007, Alupro sponsored our fruit tree project. Our aim was to establish a fruit tree nursery at Mwaya with a greenhouse for grafting and budding, and to grow fruit trees in some of the community tree nurseries. The communities and the RIPPLE Africa staff have been so excited and enthusiastic about this programme that we have extended the fruit tree project to all of our nurseries. They have been growing lemon trees as hardy root stock for oranges and tangerines, mangos for grafting, guavas and pawpaws, and some avocados. These improved fruit trees will provide valuable income generation from the sale of the tree seedlings and eventually the sale of fruit. Also, local communities will benefit from eating the fruit.
 
The new Alupro greenhouse under construction — this will be used for grafting and budding Preparing a local mango for graiting onto an improved mango Hardy lemons and guavas — we estimate that over 200,000 fruit trees have been grown this season Introducing oranges to the Senior Chiefs — they had never seen oranges like these before!

The new Alupro greenhouse under construction — this will be used for grafting and budding

Preparing a local mango for graiting onto an improved mango

Hardy lemons and guavas — we estimate that over 200,000 fruit trees have been grown this season

Introducing oranges to the Senior Chiefs — they had never seen oranges like these before!
 

We held a very exciting meeting with the senior chiefs and gave them navel oranges, purchased from a supermarket in Lilongwe and imported from South Africa. They had never seen oranges like these before, and our aim is for communities to be able to grow large, juicy oranges in the future. We have already organised the purchase of budwood from improved orange and tangerine trees to be budded on to the hardy lemon stock.

In November 2007, Cherry Hamson, the Communications Director for Alupro, visited Mwaya to see how the project was developing. Cherry is very passionate about this project being an enormous success. She is promoting the project with local authorities and schools in the UK, and many of them have featured the project in their magazines and websites.
 
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