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Through the SERFOR, more than 30 community members were trained in the construction of fire girdles.The National Forest and Wild Fauna Service (Serfor) of the Ministry of Agrarian Development and Irrigation, through its Sustainable Productive Forests Program (BPS), trained more than 30 community members regarding prevention against forest fires, in the peasant community of Cordillera Blanca, Ancash.
To do this, a BPS program team shared basic knowledge for the construction of fire girdles, a technique that consists of the opening of strategic stripes in vulnerable land, the elimination of combustible material (Ichu, dry leaves, branches) and soil compaction to create natural barriers against fire.
Avoiding forest fires is our responsibility. Therefore, in the training of learning by doing and with the use of rakes, shovels and machetes, which dictated the Serfor, we have built the firebroke girdle to protect our families, the 167 hectares of growing plantations and the 100 hectares of the pine forest species that we will install with the Serfor, said Simeon Cruz, White mountain range.
In the same activity, the attendees reinforced their silvicultural abilities in a didactic and competitive way through a best pruner contest, in which the winners received agricultural tools as a prize.
This forest day allowed to share knowledge and empower forest producers in the leadership of fire prevention and in the sustainable management of their plantations, said Daniel Rivera, executive coordinator of the BPS - Serfor program.
More hectares for forest plantations
Through the SERFOR BPS program, 5300 hectares of forest plantations will be installed, within three years, in the departments of Ancash, Cajamarca, Junin, Huanuco, Pasco and San Martin with an investment of S/ 46 million.
In Ancash, 13 peasant communities were benefited by the Forest Incentives Program (PIF), whereby they can install 1300 hectares of forest plantations. With this action, more than 1700 families will benefit directly.
In this way, Midagri seeks to strengthen the local economy and contribute to the mitigation of climate change, the reduction of deforestation and conservation of biodiversity.
Likewise, this initiative, framed in the multisectoral plan against forest fires 2025-2027 is part of the states efforts to protect ecosystems and reduce risk factors to forest fires in the country, in order to safeguard the life and subsistence means of local communities.
Meanwhile, the SERFOR continues to implement these courses nationwide prioritizing the departments that have a higher incidence of forest fires, such as Cajamarca, Ancash, Cusco, Puno, Arequipa, among others. In this way it contributes to preventive, integral and articulated management of risk.
