BURGOS, June 18 -- The municipal government here, along with partner stakeholders, has been fortifying a 20-hectare reforestation area in Barangay Agaga by planting more fruit-bearing trees every year.

In time for the celebration of Arbor Day on June 25, a total of 1,220 grafted fruit-bearing trees, including avocado, guyabano, jackfruit, duhat, caimito, and chico, are now being prepared at a nursery for a simultaneous tree-planting program in the area.

Arbor Day is an internationally recognized secular holiday that encourages individuals and groups to plant and care for trees.

"We are trying to convert the tree plantation area into a food forest and, at the same time, for reforestation," Jay-arr Tiguiamo, municipal environment and na...