1 / TIST India - Chezhumai / May 2008
TIST India The International Small Group & Tree Planting Program my TIST Farmers Help Worldwide Problem The International Small Group & Tree Planting Program TIST India: New No.52, Guru Ram Flats, Flat D, Venkat Ratnam Nagar, Adyar, Chennal 600 020, Tamil Nadu, India Phone : +31 44 42188438 / Mabile: +91 9840299822 / Email: josephrexon@tist.org 2 |
TIST India - Chezhumai / May 2008 IB Helpline ®
To introduce your friends/relatives in TIST Program contact Authi Krishnaswamy (Program Coordinator) in 9940615322 ®
To know quality seedling vendors contact Matraj (Coordinator) in 9940615324 ® If you have started a nursery or planted trees and wanted to inform TIST about that, contact Karunagaran (Coordinator) in9940615323 ®
If you have any difficulty in TIST Program like disease in your trees/seedlings, not getting your voucher in time contact A.Joseph Rexon (Program Director), in 9840299822
Thoodhuvalai herb Thoodhuvalai herb is green creeper type plant. The leaves of this plant are great in curing cold and asthma complaints. People suffering from wheezing and cold can have the thoodhuvalai herb regularly to get rid of it and develop good lung strength. This plant grows in the bush in the village side, but there is a great demand for the leaves of this plant in cities. 50 grams of leaves cost Rs.10 in cities. Members can plant this herb in their home backyard in a corner for their personal use or commercial purpose. Do not grow this herb in between the trees. Thoodhuvalai plant has lot of thorns in the stem and in the back of the leaves too, quantifiers will find it difficult to go through to quantify the trees.
Do not burn the agriculture waste that will increase the carbon content in the atmosphere . TIST India - Chezhumai / May 2008 tagger Gh — Geena Health is Wealth There is no such better life without a good health. Health is the most important thing for a better life but still neglected. People would rather prefer to run after money and other material things than their own health. This month, we wil read and understand about the most dreadful disease, AIDS. AIDS is one of biggest problems facing the world today and nobody is beyond its reach. Everyone should know the basic facts about AIDS. 1.WhatisAIDS? Answer: AIDS is a medical condition. People develop AIDS because HIV has damaged their natural defences againstdisease. 2. Whatis HIV? Answer: HIV is a virus. Viruses infect the cells that make up the human body and replicate (make new copies of themselves) within those cells. A virus can also damage human cells, which is one of the things that can make a person ill. HIV can be passed from one person to another. Someone can become infected with HIV through contact with the bodily fluids of someone who already has HIV. HIV stands for the 'Human Immunodeficiency Virus'. Someone who is diagnosed as infected with HIV is said to be HIV+ or "HIV positive’.
4 [ TIST India - Chezhumai / May 2008 3. Why is HIV dangerous? Answer: The immune system is a group of cells and organs that protect your body by fighting disease. The human immune system usually finds and Kills viruses fairly quickly. So if the body's immune system attacks and kills viruses, what's the problem? Different viruses attack different parts of the body - some may attack the skin, others the lungs, and so on. The common cold is caused by a virus. What makes HIV so dangerous is that it attacks the immune system itself - the very thing that would normally get rid of a virus. It particularly attacks a special type of immune system cell known as a CD4 lymphocyte. HIV has a number of tricks that help it to evade the body's defences, including very rapid mutation. This means that once HIV has taken hold, the immune system can never fully get rid of it. There isn't any way to tell just by looking if someone's been infected by HIV. In fact a person infected with HIV may look and feel perfectly well for many years and may not know that they are infected. But as the person's immune system weakens they become increasingly vulnerable to illnesses, many of which they would previously have fought off easily. The only reliable way to tell whether someone has HIV is for them to take a blood test, which can detect infection from a few weeks after the virus first entered the body. In the next Chezhumai, we will read and understand more about AIDS.
TIST India - Chezhumai { May 2008 lamar’. fer — Clegg Chetpet Centre This centre was started 6 months ago. We have 59 Small Groups in this centre. 24 Small Groups have helped the quantifier to perform baseline quantification on their lands, where they would be planting trees. TIST request all the other groups in this centre to cooperate with the quantifier to complete baseline quantification on their lands. It is mandatory to perform baseline quantification before planting trees. Six groups have planted trees few months back and there are 5,554 trees in this centre. All the groups are interested to plant longstanding trees like teak and sandalwood in this centre. Poongothai Small Group of Chetpet Centre The members of this group have planted 1,150 teak trees in a grove called Deveraj in Bagavanthapuram Village. In the beginning, they had green chilly planted in this land. Now, they are planning to start groundnut as intercropping in between the teak trees.
TIST India - Chezhumai / May 2008 emer” Eh — Glepsnio Annamalai Small Group of Chetpet Centre The members of this group have planted 1,485 teak trees in a grove called Annamalai in Chanananthal Village. The members of this group are also planning to start groundnut as intercropping in between the teak trees. Murugar Small Group of Chetpet Centre The members of this group have planted 1,082 teak trees in three different groves like, Denalaksmi, Karuna and Sambath. They belong to Velanthangal Village. The members of this group are also planning to start groundnut as intercropping in between the teak trees.
TIST India - Chezhumai / May 2008 wash @ikdhun — Glegpsmio Janaki Small Group of Chetpet Centre The members of this group have planted 464 sandalwood and 581 teak trees in two different groves. They belong to Ragunathasamuthiram Village. The members of this group have groundnut as intercropping in between the trees. The new groups of Chetpet Centre have shown great interest in the best practices of TIST and planted all longstanding trees and more importantly, they all believe in intercropping activity too, which would give them additional income.
TIST India - Chezhumai / May 2008 mmr’ Gk Burr — Glagpsmin Narmapallam Centre This Centre was started more than 6 months back. We have 16 Small Groups in this centre. Groups like, Devan, Kavitha, Lakshmi, Kanniyammal, Melmalaiyanur, Devagi and Karthi have planted trees like, mango, neem and eucalyptus. There are 2,125 trees in this centre. 4 Srikanniyamman Small Group
New Seedlings in Placepalayam Several groups are starting nursery with lot of teak seedlings. Six Small Groups have joined together in TB Puram and Rajapalayam in Placepalayam Centre and started a nursery with 13,000 teak seedlings. The groups are planning to transplant these seedlings during September-October 2008. Start nursery with longstanding species now, so that, you would have seedlings in your hand to plant during rainy season. lt is one of the best practices to have seedlings in reserve to fill the place wherever there is casualty in newly planted tree groves. Moreover, having a nursery will help you to increase your trees gradually over the years to come.
As Sumathi Small Group of Rajapalayam
TIST India - Chezhumai / May 2008 t=gmsrin Gurr — Gls psmin Useful Trees to Plant Cashew Tree It is a small evergreen tree growing to 10-12m (~32 ft) tall, with a short, often irregularly-shaped trunk. The leaves are spirally arranged, leathery textured, elliptic to obovate, 4 to 22 cm long and 2 to 15 cm broad, with a smooth margin. The flowers are produced in a panicle or coryms up to 26 cm long, each flower small, pale green at first then turning reddish, with five slender, acute petals 7 to 15mm long. What appears to be the fruit of the cashew tree is an oval or pear-shaped accessory fruit or false fruit that develops from the receptacle of the cashew flower. Called the cashew apple, better known in Central America as "maranon”, it ripens into a yellow and/or red structure about 511 cm long. It is edible, and has a strong "sweet" smell and a sweet taste. The pulp of the cashew apple is very juicy, but the skin is fragile, making it unsuitable for transport. The true fruit of the cashew tree is a kidney or boxing-glove shaped drupe that grows at the end of the pseudofruit. Actually, the drupe develops first on the tree, and then the peduncle expands into the pseudofruit. Within the true fruit is a single seed, the cashew nut. The bark is scraped and soaked overnight or boiled as an antidiarrheal. Seeds are ground up into powders used for antivenom for snake bites. The nut oil is used topically as an antifungal and for healing cracked heels
TIST India - Chezhumai / May 2008 Question & Answer Gaal ald upd What do we get from TIST Program? TIST empowers Small Groups of subsistence farmers in countries such as Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda and India to reverse the devastating effects of deforestation, drought, and famine. Since 1999, TIST participants have been identifying local sustainable development goals that include tree planting and sustainable agriculture. TIST creates a communication and administrative structure that also addresses health (including HIV/AIDS), education, and nutririon. TIST expects to provide long- term revenue for the Small Group participants through the sale of greenhouse gas credits (GhG). The best practices of TIST Program gives lot of benefits to the groups, groups should follow all the best practices of TIST for the benefit. Once the group follows all the best practices, the group gets: {1) Once in three months voucher payment from TIST for all their live trees (2) 70% profit sharing from TIST after 20 years (3) Yield from intercropping/conservative farming (4) Yield from trees by planting useful trees like fruiting bearing, teak, cotton etc. (5) Benefits of a sustainable woodlot fuel wood for your own use By being in a group, the members share their knowledge with others. The members get chance to help other member, a fellowship, a brotherhood is developed. The village turns green and fresh air is circulated. Job opportunities for members, like removing the weeds, digging holes for planting trees, making natural manure, filing the polythene bags with soil & manure for making seedlings, watering the seedlings / trees, etc.