Executive Order No.

26

What is the National Greening

Program (NGP)?
Executive Order 26 describes the NGP as a
program seeking to plant some 1.5 billion trees
covering about 1.5 million hectares for a period of six
(6) years from 2011 to 2016, in lands of the public
domain.
These lands include forestlands, mangrove and
protected areas, ancestral domains, civil and military
reservations, and urban areas.

NGP Objectives
HUMAN SECURITY
Increased household incomes
Enhanced environmental stewardship
Improved general well-being of commodities
ECONOMIC SECURITY
Increased economic activity
Increased interest in technology and business
development
Increased production of crops and forest-based materials.

Increased environmental stability

Sustained provision of ecosystem goods and services.

The NGP Target

YEAR

TARGET

Year 1: 100,000 ha

100 M

Year 2: 200,000 ha

200 M

Year 3: 300,000 ha

300 M

Year 4: 300,000 ha

300 M

Year 5: 300,000 ha

300 M

Year 6: 300,000 ha

300 M

1.5 Million hectares

1.5 Billion seedlings

All in all, this target is more than the accomplishment over the past 25 years.

What difference can the NGP

make?
There are about 5 million poor upland families who

earn an average annual income of Php 22,995. These

families already represent almost 1/3 of the entire
Philippine population.
Built into the NGP are cash incentives for
families and communities that will be
stewards of the plantations. There will also be
benefits from processing/marketing produce
or crops.

 Across the Philippines are 8 million hectares of

unproductive,
forestlands.

open,

denuded,

or

degraded

A hectare of land in Mindanao can earn Php

120,000 per year. Even at only Php 10,000
earnings/hectare/year, the 8 million hectares
could already generate Php 80 billion per
year.

We are importing a whopping 3 million metric tons

per year of wheat, 1.2 million metric tons of rice, and

125,000 metric tons of soya, among others.
Imagine: (1) how much we would save if we
could source all that locally; (2) how much
wood/paper and other forest by-products we
would get for national use; and (3) how much
the country could earn from exports of such
products.

What will make it work?

Social Mobilization

The government, private sector, peoples

organizations, non-government organizations, and
civil society join hands in the activities of the NGP as
volunteer planters, long-term plantation stewards, or
donors.
For the first time, the NGP is driven, not just by
one, but by all government agencies through a
National Convergence Initiative.

 Harmonization of Initiatives

The NGP is a first as it consolidates and

harmonizes all greening efforts, such as the Upland
Development Program, Green Philippine Highways,
Luntiang Pilipinas, and other similar activities of the
government, private sector, local government units,
the civil society.
Provision of Incentives
All proceeds from the agroforestry plantations,
duly accounted by the DENR, shall accrue to the NGP
beneficiary communities. This shall be given priority
in the Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) Program of the
Department of Social Welfare and Development.

 Use of Appropriate Science and Technology (S&T)

Target areas and inputs will be identified; land use

optimized (determining site-specific crop/trees and
markets);
seedling
quality
ensured;
and
organic/biofertilizers, such as Mycorrhizal fungi and
vermicomposting, employed.