Kaingin

KAINGIN

AND WHY WE MUST STOP IT!

WHAT IS THE KAINGIN PRACTICE?

an illegal farming practice that involves slashing and burning of trees and plowing the ashes for fertilizer customary to the Dumagats of Tanay, Rizal

WHY DO THEY DO IT?

• In efforts of cultural preservation, it is their source of social and economic bonding
• They lack education and training in farming
• No alternative lands to till except their ancestral lands -- the mountains

SLASH AND BURN

Plots become infertile

Vegetation is cut down and burned as method of land clearing for cultivation

Farmer moves to another fresh plot

DANGERS OF KAINGIN

SOIL LOSES ITS FERTILITY

01

continuous recycling of nutrients from soil and tree roots is needed to keep everything fertile and growing

2 YEARS SUSTAINABILITY

02

farmers can only sustain for 2 consecutive years on the same patch of soil

CLIMATE CHANGE

burning increases release of Carbon into the atmosphere

03

SOIL EROSION

04

AIR POLLUTION

05

ACCIDENTAL FOREST FIRES

06

Ritchie Colmo