August 2020
Climate Change Climate change is a proven fact. Global warming has caused serious changes to the planet, such as rising sea levels, extreme weather events, deforestation, disappearance of species. But as individuals we can slow down global warming by implementing small more sustainable actions within our community 1. Let us adapt to our ancestor's practices in living a simple life with less emission. 2. Do not trouble the forest or the trees in the avenues and plant more useful trees on your land 3. Be very prudent in using energy, home electricity, petrol and diesel for your vehicles 4. Young people have the most at stake when it comes to climate change. Teach your children to be friendly to the environment 5. Learn water conservation practices from TIST Trainers during training. Climate-smart agriculture, water conservation and soil enrichment are very important towards global warming mitigation.
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TIST Tree Planting India Pvt. Ltd Flat A, Plot 69, 26th Street, Sankar Nagar, Pammal, Chennai 600075. Mobile : 9840299822 Email: josephrexontist@gmail.com Skype: a.joseph.rexon Web: www.tist.org The International Small Group & Tree Planting Program TIST - Planting Trees and Improving Agriculture for Better Lives
Tiruvannamalai District We, the members of Dhamodharan Small group of Chengam Center, Tiruvannamalai District have 7 acres of land, in which, we have planted teak trees in two acres of land, in the balance 5 acres we are practicing food crops like, groundnut, paddy. We have 602 trees in our grove. We are participating in TIST Node and training programs, and we are following the best practices, like use of natural fertiliser, get more yield with minimum expenditure and practicing intercrops in between the trees with the help of learnings from the training program. We are taking care of our trees in good way. Similarly, we are requesting other small groups to follow the natural way in farming. TIST tree stipend is of good benefit to us and we thank TIST for this.
Vellore District We, the members of Indian Small Group of Mambakkam Village, Arani Center of Tiruvallur Disrict have planted teak trees and monitoring it. We are practicing short time food crops like groundnut, greengram as intercrops. We are also receiving tree stipend from TIST to grow trees. We are getting annual income from our food crops. Also, we are receiving good information and training materials from TIST employees through WhatsApp and that is of good benefit to us. We are requesting small groups to make use the Whatsapp information. We thank TIST India on behalf of our small group.