El Carrizo Project
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The Center for Sustainable Technologies (CETECSU) has started this project in El Carrizo, or Mesa Las Azucenas (near Zapotitan del Hidalgo), with the objective of creating interest in changing the annual crops for trees that are more appropriate for the conditions on the local mountain slopes.
Map 1. Jocotepec Municipality Map 2. Reforestación Zone "El Carrizo"
In this area, the farmers and general public will be able to appreciate that it
is possible to coexist with nature without contaminating it by using composting toilets and "eco-technologies", taking advantage of solar and wind energy, rainwater capture, efficient wood stoves, use of medicinal plants, forest species, fruit trees and finally creating an experimental field of a native sweet potato (camote del cerro, Remotiflora Dioscorea) that produces highly nutritious tubers and has not been previously studied.
Map 3. Location of CETECSU in El Carrizo
The proposal is to buy the following species:
Bamboo 50 Christmas Pine 150 Walnut 100 Peach 100 Avocado 100
The strategy is to plant saplings of more than one meter in height, to create an immediate incentive to take care of the new plantings; using an alternative method with material provided by SEMARNAT or SEDER for large scale reforestation of native species which will be transplanted in bags which with proper care will create a nursery of trees of suffucient size to be planted the following cycle or year.
To this end, it is proposed that resources be provided to buy trees and construction materials for a 10m by 10m viewing terrace from which Lake Chapala can be seen, and which will also serve as a lookout shelter for the security of the zone.
Figure 1. Rainwater capture system
Figure 2. Panoramic view of Jocotepec and Lake Chapala from CETECSU
Thank you in advance for your help in realizing this project.
Engineer José Antonio Machuca Núñez
Project Director.