Mongolian female forester praised internationally
Mongolian female forester is praised internationally.
Mongolian female forester is praised internationally. FAO Award-winning forester Deleg helps fight malnutrition while greening the steppes of Mongolia program, planting nearly 30 000 sea buckthorn, elm and aspen trees. Initially, after her graduation, Deleg found work as a forestry official with the government and she established Mongolia’s first ‘leaf tree nursery’. Each year, the nurseries planted 300 000 aspen and 250 000 elm trees, along with 30 000 sea buckthorn and blueberry plants. Not only did these nurseries contribute to the greening of Mongolia, leading to improved diets, but the nurseries also provided jobs at a critical time for the country’s economy. Deleg later started a successful fruit and vegetable plantation, hiring as many unemployed people as she could to work with her. Since then, more than 22 tons of vegetables have been harvested from the green zone, she was working on. In recognition of her achievements, Deleg received FAO’s model community forester award in 2009 and in 2011, her women’s cooperative was selected as the Best Women’s Cooperative in the Asia and Pacific Region. The cooperative now produces three sea buckthorn products, including sea buckthorn ointment, juice and syrup – all of which have become very popular in Mongolia. The work of FAO and its member countries, with model foresters like Deleg, is helping to meet two of FAO’s strategic objectives to eliminate hunger and malnutrition while making agriculture and forestry more productive and sustainable.
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