📋 Tender Overview
The Pechp, carries out the production of seedlings through its nursery in the Poecos camp.Our dry forest, one of the most important ecosystems in the northwest of Peru, but also one of the most threatened in the country, receives a respite thanks to the efforts of the Special Project Chira Piura. Through its forest nursery located in the Poecos Camp, plantable production and reforestation of in danger of extinction native species are carried out.
This nursery, managed by the Directorate of Agrarian Development and Promotion of the investment of the PECHP, which leads the engineer Angel Garcia Zavalu, represents an important institutional effort to preserve species that are very threatened today, such as the Hualtaco (Loxopterygium Huasango) and the Holy Palo (Bursera Severeolens).
The first is indiscriminately carved for the use of its aromatic wood and by the extraction of essential oil, which is attributed healing and relaxing properties. Meanwhile, Hualtaco is predicted by its lasting wood, used in the construction of agricultural fences and for civil construction.
Both species of wild flora are in the category of critical danger, according to a ministerial resolution of the Midagri of the year 2016. In this document it is indicated that they are at risk of disappearing if conservation measures are not taken.
Ecosystem benefits
In addition, as part of the Forestry and Reforestation Plan in priority areas of the Poecos Reservoir, other species included in the category of Danger, such as the carob, field sapote and Guayacan, also occur in this nursery. Similarly, plantons of important species are being produced for the recovery of the dry forest such as the Charan, Ceibo, Angolo, Porotillo and Almendro. These species, in addition to providing important ecosystem services, will fulfill in the future the natural barrier function to reduce sediment drag to the Poechos reservoir.
Another of the ecosystem services that will provide us with water regulation, since they act as a natural sponge, retaining water in their roots when it rains and freeing it little by little towards the lower areas, avoiding drag and soil degradation. This is how they help maintain the balance of the ecosystem. Also, through evapotranspiration, plants release moisture to the environment, and together with the heat of the sun, they contribute to form clouds that then become rains, vital for soils.
