Growing Fruit Trees, Conserving Nature

Achmad Darisman has encouraged over 1,400 farmers to grow various perennial plants, especially fruit trees, on hundreds of hectares of land.

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Achmad Darisman

Achmad Darisman, 54, is acknowledged as a key figure who has successfully intensified environmental conservation in Pati, Central Java, through the Trees4Trees program. He has encouraged over 1,400 farmers to grow various perennial plants, especially fruit trees, on hundreds of hectares of land.

Darisman was observing different fruit plant seedlings about 40 centimeters tall in the nursery plantation in Wedarijaksa village, Wedarijaksa district, Pati regency. There were the seedlings of mangosteen, avocado, soursop, ngapi nut, rose apple, durian, stink bean, mango, wood apple and pucung (Pangium edule) trees. These seedlings were grown by the technique of twig grafting.