Tree Talk and WFP

are helping 230

schools in the N
and NE to grow
200,000 trees this
year, including
thousands of
Mvule trees
Here is Mr
Ochaya, the
is funding Tree Talk headmaster of
newspaper and tree Laroo PS in Gulu,
seed for every school with a Tree Talk
in Uganda. Thanks, 06
une 20
Mvule that is one
WFP! No.2 J year old.
Vol. 5

Tree seed is life! Tree seed is the beginning of

all trees.With this Tree
Talk, we are sending seed
for Mvule to districts in the
center, north and east. This
is a fast-growing and
rewarding tree.
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So you need to collect your own
seed for all the different trees
you need.
Below is a table on some
useful trees. Learn your
trees and study when they
produce seeds.

Some trees produce seeds

Happy mother with seed for
a tree called Lira.It produces
quick shade and building
poles.
When to collect your seed
We are sending seed for Podo to once a year, others twice.
the cooler districts in the west and Some trees make seed for
south west. Crack the coat of the a short time, others over a
Podo seed before you plant it. It is period of months.
a good timber tree.
Some seeds need treatment
Finally, for the hot dry areas, we before you put them in your
are sending the seed for a tree nursery bed. Some germinate
called Echoma in Ateso and Loba with no help from us.
in Lugbara. It has a delicious fruit. Others need nicking or
soaking. Keep this
But this Tree Talk seed cannot be table near you so
enough for you, your school and you can consult it.
home. Many trees are seeding
now so start
We need a variety of trees around collecting!
us. Every tree has its own
purpose. Planting just one type of
tree is like eating just one type of This boy at
food. Would that be good? No! Lacor P7 School is
collecting seed for a tree
called Jatropha.
Jatropha makes a good
live fence. Its Luganda
name is Kiryowa. You
can grow vanilla
on it.

How to collect your seed Mix the seeds

up so that the
seeds from
Look for good mother Work with friends
so that you can different trees
trees. For fruit trees, are in one
collect from trees collect from as
many trees as basket. Then
with many good divide them
tasting fruit. possible.
30 trees is a good between you
For timber trees, and your
collect from trees number and will
give you good friends. Now
that grow straight you can start
and have many genetic variety.
your nursery!
seeds.
2 Tree Talk, June 2006

MVULE so easy to grow Ready in

30 years

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The resin from the stem

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has medicinal value.

Harvesting
your own
This is the
Mvule seed
Mvule fruit. It If you cannot get
is loved and Mvule seed from the
dispersed by National Tree Seed
bats. The Centre, you can
leaves of harvest your own. The
female tree produces
Mvule are plenty of seeds.
good for
mulch. This is usually around
March. Collection is
Mvule is our great
easy. You can pick the
fruits from the
tree but it is now ground.
endangered. There is too
much cutting and not This is how the foresters get Mvule seed. They break the fruit with a Collect the mature
enough planting. machine. You can break the fruit up by hand. fruits, crush them and
put them in water. The
Everyone is sad about the Once it has grown to the time before it can be chest of an adult (breast seeds will sink and

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loss of Mvule but there is height of one metre, it can harvested, about 80 years. height). Compared to can easily be
no need to feel hopeless. survive up to six months This is not true! You can other hardwoods, Mvule is separated.
Do not regret: instead, without rain. It also resists harvest Mvule after 30 very fast growing.
After separating, the
start planting! Mvule is termites. years. seeds should be dried
easy to germinate and This is when it has Mvule resembles teak and in the shade for a few
grows fast. It is not a Some people think that reached a diametre of 60 is valued for floors, days to reduce
difficult tree. Mvule takes a very long cm at the height of the furniture and boats. moisture.

Wrong use of Mvule New Vision Mvule

In 2005 Tree Talk and
Mvule is a timber tree of very high value. This means that New Vision sent Mvule
when its wood is cut as timber it sells for a high price, seed to 500 lucky
much higher than other wood. readers. Later we wrote
to them to find out what
Because Mvule trees are endangered in Uganda, they are they did with the seed.
not meant to be harvested here. So most Mvule timber in
Uganda is brought in illegally from Congo by people who Emmy Kalyebara from
are taking advantage of the chaos there. This is against the Kyenjojo sent this photo
law and bad for the environment of Congo. (right). He got six
seedlings. He planted
one at the Shell station
A 16 year in Kyenjojo town and
old Mvule in gave five to a friend.
Jinja, as fast
growing as a Paul Alibu of Adjumani
got 57 seedlings and
pine. sent this photo below.

Mvule being used for brick burning

in Mukono. (Photo: FORRI)
But even in Uganda Mvule trees are being cut, often for
wrong reasons such as to burn bricks. Mvule is too
valuable to be used for such a purpose.

Instead of burning a valuable tree like Mvule, it is better to

burn a tree like eucalyptus. Eucalyptus is a fast-growing Mvule for farms, schools, subcounty
tree. If you work in a brick works, make sure you plant a headquarters
small forest of eucalyptus to meet your fuelwood needs.
Mvule ends up being a big to grow crops around the
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tree. So it is very good for Mvule tree, you can prune

planting around the lower branches so that
institutions like health it creates less shade.
Mvule being centers, hospitals and
used to subcounty headquaters Space your trees about ten
where there is plenty of metres apart on your farm.
process lime land and no cultivation.
in Tororo You can also cut Mvule to
district. But you can also grow get poles. It coppices
(Photo: FORRI) (Photo: Ebert) Mvule on farms. If you want (makes more shoots).
 3 Tree Talk, June 2006

Tree Talk Plus: Parents and schools do great work

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A pupil pots seedlings at Kumi Boys PS in
the WFP-Tree Talk nursery. Kumi Boys PS donated space for this
nursery, the only one in the district.
Tree Talk is working with 230 schools in Lira, Caretakers at the Kumi Boys PS nursery.
Apac, Pader, Kitgum, Gulu, Kumi and the whole They are growing 20,000 Mvule seedlings
of Karamoja. as well as seedlings of many other trees.

The aim is to plant woodlots, boundary and

compound trees. Parents are clearing land for
woodlots. Communities are getting involved!

WFP-Tree Talk are giving barbed wire and over

600 seedlings to each of the 230 schools.

Parents clear the land, Above: Adyel PS in Lira: teachers and

bring poles for the fence pupils from lower classes line up seedlings
and plant the seedlings. as they plant their woodlot. Below: upper
classes make the fence.
So far over 120 schools
have planted their
woodlots, and the first
rains are not yet finished.
More will be planted
during the second rains.

Meanwhile all schools in Tree Talk mobiliser for Gulu, teacher

Uganda are urged to grow Secondo Okot, with a parent at Lacor P7
their Tree Talk seeds. School. They have made a beautiful live
Have you grown your Lusambya (Markhamia) fence for the woodlot with Kituba. Live
and Cassia (Senna) seed from the last Tree Talk? fences are long-lasting.

Know your trees: Borassus palm, Tugo or Ekudut

The Borassus palm is a very useful palm. In
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Lwo it is called Tugo. It is greatly valued by

many Ugandans,
including the Acholi
people.

Each fruit contains

three seeds, orange in
colour. These can be
pounded and eaten.
The softened outside is
delicious.

After pounding and A heap of Tugo seeds in Gulu. They will

eating, the Acholi like sprout, producing an edible shoot called
to heap the seeds. Ocwiji.
They then eat the first shoot that comes out of
the seed (cotyledon). They say it tastes like A Borassus
cassava and call it Ocwiji. Finally, the tree is a palm fenc-
source of palm wine. ing pole at
the WFP-
When the palm tree Tree Talk
is cut, it can be woodlot at
split into 16 to 20 St Joseph
poles. These are PS in For
very resistant to God village
termites. near Gulu
town. This
Alternatively the woodlot has
A Borassus palm in an IDP camp. This trunk of each tree three spe-
is a tree that gives many products to can make three or cies:
people. The seed is traditionally four traditional eucalytpus,
spread by elephants but you can also beehives. These sell cassia and
plant it. for 3000/= each. leucaena.
4 Tree Talk, June 2006
Musizi tree: We love to protect the nation, our school had established We prepared seed beds for all
Your letters

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environment by planting more a live fence, forest and orchard. SP these trees: Mugavu, Musasa,
trees and giving care to them. Agric Okong Angiro, Agric teacher, St Mvule and Musizi. Kisiibo Musah,
Write to PO Box 22366, and compound teacher Aliabu
Kampala. Every letter Mary’s Girls PS, Namalu. agric teacher, with pupils, Oriyoi
published wins a T-shirt. Julius and pupils of Nawansaso PS, Tororo
Day and Boarding School,
Kamuli
Paul Kasadha writes that he
planted many cassia trees at St
Peter’s SSS, Namuwendwa,
Kamuli. Well done!

Trinity College, Buwagi, Jinja:

environment teacher HK Ntambula
and students have planted
Grevillea, Moringa and Cassia. How
about planting some Mvule too?

Greetings from the Karambi SS

Schools should not wait to be told Tree Talk Club. We treasure much
to plant trees. Even before Tree tree planting! Douglas Kule,
Talk’s emphasis on regreening the Headmaster

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students offer school fees forest reserves

To encroach means to move into

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something that does not belong to
us personally. Forest reserves do
Yes! A newspaper called The West
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not belong to us personally. So we

Australian was shocked when it
must not encroach upon them.
found out that many children in
Uganda do not eat lunch because
Forest reserves belong to the
there is no firewood to cook the
nation and have serious jobs to do.
food.
Above all they protect our environ-
ment and stabilise our rain, Sad sight: a forest reserve that is
So some students in Australia are being damaged by encroachers.
streams and weather. We can
making small sacrifices so that they
collect forest products from them
can save pocket money for fees for
but NOT move into them to live or •No fresh encroachment will be
Tree Talkers. Some are walking to
cultivate crops. tolerated, and any encroacher
school instead of taking a bus.
who entered reserves after 1992
Some are not having "eats" after
If we encroach on forest reserves, should leave voluntarily.
school. Some are "going without"
sooner or later we will create •Encroachers who had vacated the
things they usually enjoy.
Busy students at Nyabyeya. You can desert in Uganda. Let's fight en- reserves should not go back.
croachment together. • Always allow the demarcation of
be one too! Thanks, Australians! Tree Talkers, if
Do you live near a forest reserve? the boundary and the registration
Schools in Australia want to help you would like to send a message to
Well these are the rules about of encroachers to go on peace-
you and other students go to these students or study at
forest reserves that the National fully.
Nyabyeya Forestry College to study Nyabyeya, write to Tree Talk, Forestry Authority wants everyone Teachers and learners, help forest-
for a diploma or a certificate. PO Box 22366, Kampala. to know: ers to combat encroachment.

Fun facts
about Win
Communities and teachers: Tree
member Gladys Biira with her first
born Calvin Mirembe potting
seedlings for sale. “Our
organization is getting a lot of
Australia Talk is offering a training for
you in late 2006. Get selected by
money from these nursery
seedlings,” she says.
sending photos of your tree
• It is the flattest and nurseries, boundary planting and
driest inhabited continent woodlots to Tree Talk PO Box
on earth. 22366, Kampala.
• It is both a continent and
We already know one CBO we will
a country. invite: SHWO from Kasese!
• It is the home of the euca- SHWO stands for Self-help Women
lyptus! Organisation. On the right is SHWO
• It has special animals, like
kangaroos. Buy high-quality tree seed from the Uganda
Their babies grow in pock- National Tree Seed Centre, PO Box 23889,
ets on the front Kampala. Tel: 041-286049. Only 2500/= for
of the mother. 50g of Mahogany.

TREE TALK is a project of: World Food Forestry Inspection Division,

Programme, National Forestry Editor: C Watson Writers: S
Straight Talk Foundation, KAMPAL A, Authority and Walaita, SP Amunau,
45 Bukoto St. Kamwokya,
PO Box 22366, Kampala UGANDA. TEL: National Tree G Kiyingi Design:Gb Mukasa
Tel. 0312-262030/1 0312-242000 Seed Centre. Printer: The New Vision
2 Tree Talk, June 2006

MVULE so easy to grow Ready in

30 years

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The resin from the stem

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has medicinal value.

Harvesting
your own
This is the
Mvule seed
Mvule fruit. It If you cannot get
is loved and Mvule seed from the
dispersed by National Tree Seed
bats. The Centre, you can
leaves of harvest your own. The
female tree produces
Mvule are plenty of seeds.
good for
mulch. This is usually around
March. Collection is
Mvule is our great
easy. You can pick the
fruits from the
tree but it is now ground.
endangered. There is too
much cutting and not This is how the foresters get Mvule seed. They break the fruit with a Collect the mature
enough planting. machine. You can break the fruit up by hand. fruits, crush them and
put them in water. The
Everyone is sad about the Once it has grown to the time before it can be chest of an adult (breast seeds will sink and

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loss of Mvule but there is height of one metre, it can harvested, about 8 0 years. height). Compared to can easily be
no need to feel hopeless. survive up to sixmonths This is not true! ou
Y can other hardwoods, Mvule is separated.
D
o not regret: instead, without rain. It also resists harvest Mvule after 30 very fast growing.
After separating, the
start planting! Mvule is termites. years. seeds should be dried
easy to germinate and This is when it has Mvule resembles teak and in the shade for a few
grows fast. It is not a Some people think that reached a diametre of 60 is valued for floors, days to reduce
difficult tree. Mvule takes a very long cm at the height of the furniture and boats. moisture.

Wrong use of Mvule New Vision Mvule

In 2005 Tree Talk and
Mvule is a timber tree of very high value. This means that New Vision sent Mvule
when its wood is cut as timber it sells for a high price, seed to 500 lucky
much higher than other wood. readers. Later we wrote
to them to find out what
Because Mvule trees are endangered in Uganda, they are they did with the seed.
not meant to be harvested here. So most Mvule timber in
Uganda is brought in illegally from Congo by people who Emmy Kalyebara from
are taking advantage of the chaos there. This is against the Kyenjojo sent this photo
law and bad for the environment of Congo. (right). He got six
seedlings. He planted
one at the Shell station
A 16 year in Kyenjojo town and
old Mvule in gave five to a friend.
Jinja, as fast
growing as a Paul Alibu of Adjumani
got 57 seedlings and
pine. sent this photo below.

Mvule being used for brick burning

in Mukono. (Photo: FORRI)
But even in Uganda Mvule trees are being cut, often for
wrong reasons such as to burn bricks. Mvule is too
valuable to be used for such a purpose.

Instead of burning a valuable tree like Mvule, it is better to

burn a tree like eucalyptus. Eucalyptus is a fast-growing Mvule for farms, schools, subcounty
tree. If you work in a brick works, make sure you plant a headquarters
small forest of eucalyptus to meet your fuelwood needs.
Mvule ends up being a big to grow crops around the
○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○

tree. So it is very good for Mvule tree, you can prune

planting around the lower branches so that
institutions like health it creates less shade.
Mvule being centers, hospitals and
used to subcounty headq uaters Space your trees about ten
where there is plenty of metres apart on your farm.
process lime land and no cultivation.
in Tororo ou
Y can also cut Mvule to
district. But you can also grow get poles. It coppices
(Photo: FORRI) (Photo: Ebert) Mvule on farms. If you want (makes more shoots).
 3 Tree Talk, June 2006

Tree Talk Plus: Parents and schools do great work

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A pupil pots seedlings at Kumi Boys PS in
the WFP-Tree Talk nursery. Kumi Boys PS donated space for this
nursery, the only one in the district.
Tree Talk is working with 230 schools in Lira, Caretakers at the Kumi Boys PS nursery.
Apac, Pader, Kitgum, Gulu, Kumi and the whole They are growing 20,000 Mvule seedlings
of Karamoja. as well as seedlings of many other trees.

The aim is to plant woodlots, boundary and

compound trees. Parents are clearing land for
woodlots. Communities are getting involved!

WFP-Tree Talk are giving barbed wire and over

600 seedlings to each of the 230 schools.

Parents clear the land, Above: Adyel PS in Lira: teachers and

bring poles for the fence pupils from lower classes line up seedlings
and plant the seedlings. as they plant their woodlot. Below: upper
classes make the fence.
So far over 120 schools
have planted their
woodlots, and the first
rains are not yet finished.
More will be planted
during the second rains.

Meanwhile all schools in Tree Talk mobiliser for Gulu, teacher

Uganda are urged to grow Secondo Okot, with a parent at Lacor P7
their Tree Talk seeds. School. They have made a beautiful live
Have you grown your Lusambya (Markhamia) fence for the woodlot with Kituba. Live
and Cassia (Senna) seed from the last Tree Talk? fences are long-lasting.

Know your trees: Borassus palm, Tugo or Ekudut

The Borassus palm is a very useful palm. In
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Lwo it is called Tugo. It is greatly valued by

many Ugandans,
including the Acholi
people.

Each fruit contains

three seeds, orange in
colour. These can be
pounded and eaten.
The softened outside is
delicious.

After pounding and A heap of Tugo seeds in Gulu. They will

eating, the Acholi like sprout, producing an edible shoot called
to heap the seeds. Ocwiji.
They then eat the first shoot that comes out of
the seed (cotyledon). They say it tastes like A Borassus
cassava and call it Ocwiji. Finally, the tree is a palm fenc-
source of palm wine. ing pole at
the WFP-
When the palm tree Tree Talk
is cut, it can be woodlot at
split into 16 to 20 St Joseph
poles. These are PS in For
very resistant to God village
termites. near Gulu
town. This
Alternatively the woodlot has
A Borassus palm in an IDP camp. This trunk of each tree three spe-
is a tree that gives many products to can make three or cies:
people. The seed is traditionally four traditional eucalytpus,
spread by elephants but you can also beehives. These sell cassia and
plant it. for 3000/= each. leucaena.
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Musizi tree: We love to protect the nation, our school had established We prepared seed beds for all
Your letters

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environment by planting more a live fence, forest and orchard. SP these trees: Mugavu, Musasa,
trees and giving care to them. Agric Okong Angiro, Agric teacher, St Mvule and Musizi. Kisiibo Musah,
Write to PO Box 22366, and compound teacher Aliabu
Kampala. Every letter Mary’s Girls PS, Namalu. agric teacher, with pupils, Oriyoi
published wins a T-shirt. Julius and pupils of Nawansaso PS, Tororo
Day and Boarding School,
Kamuli
Paul Kasadha writes that he
planted many cassia trees at St
Peter’s SSS, Namuwendwa,
Kamuli. Well done!

Trinity College, Buwagi, Jinja:

environment teacher HK Ntambula
and students have planted
Grevillea, Moringa and Cassia. How
about planting some Mvule too?

Greetings from the Karambi SS

Schools should not wait to be told Tree Talk Club. We treasure much
to plant trees. Even before Tree tree planting! Douglas Kule,
Talk’s emphasis on regreening the Headmaster

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students offer school fees forest reserves

To encroach means to move into

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something that does not belong to
us personally. Forest reserves do
Yes! A newspaper called The West
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not belong to us personally. So we

Australian was shocked when it
must not encroach upon them.
found out that many children in
Uganda do not eat lunch because
Forest reserves belong to the
there is no firewood to cook the
nation and have serious jobs to do.
food.
Above all they protect our environ-
ment and stabilise our rain, Sad sight: a forest reserve that is
So some students in Australia are being damaged by encroachers.
streams and weather. We can
making small sacrifices so that they
collect forest products from them
can save pocket money for fees for
but NOT move into them to live or •No fresh encroachment will be
Tree Talkers. Some are walking to
cultivate crops. tolerated, and any encroacher
school instead of taking a bus.
who entered reserves after 1992
Some are not having "eats" after
If we encroach on forest reserves, should leave voluntarily.
school. Some are "going without"
sooner or later we will create •Encroachers who had vacated the
things they usually enjoy.
Busy students at Nyabyeya. You can desert in Uganda. Let's fight en- reserves should not go back.
croachment together. • Always allow the demarcation of
be one too! Thanks, Australians! Tree Talkers, if
Do you live near a forest reserve? the boundary and the registration
Schools in Australia want to help you would like to send a message to
Well these are the rules about of encroachers to go on peace-
you and other students go to these students or study at
forest reserves that the National fully.
Nyabyeya Forestry College to study Nyabyeya, write to Tree Talk, Forestry Authority wants everyone Teachers and learners, help forest-
for a diploma or a certificate. PO Box 22366, Kampala. to know: ers to combat encroachment.

Fun facts
about Win
Communities and teachers: Tree
member Gladys Biira with her first
born Calvin Mirembe potting
seedlings for sale. “Our
organization is getting a lot of
Australia Talk is offering a training for
you in late 2006. Get selected by
money from these nursery
seedlings,” she says.
sending photos of your tree
• It is the flattest and nurseries, boundary planting and
driest inhabited continent woodlots to Tree Talk PO Box
on earth. 22366, Kampala.
• It is both a continent and
We already know one CBO we will
a country. invite: SHWO from Kasese!
• It is the home of the euca- SHWO stands for Self-help Women
lyptus! Organisation. On the right is SHWO
• It has special animals, like
kangaroos. Buy high-quality tree seed from the Uganda
Their babies grow in pock- National Tree Seed Centre, PO Box 23889,
ets on the front Kampala. Tel: 041-286049. Only 2500/= for
of the mother. 50g of Mahogany.

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