Post by jrae on Apr 1, 2012 14:34:51 GMT
We managed to get a 10 year lease from the government for this. New headache 
the other people who used to lease it grow it for corn/vegetables until most of the topsoil had washed away. So now we get to lease it because the government knows we grow fruit trees and by leasing it to us we'd definitely put trees in there and help keep the mountainside from getting more eroded.
When we asked for more land we thought they would give us the one near us and not the other side of the mountain
last Friday after we got home from the city hall to sign papers and stuff when I told our farm people which patch of land we got everyone went from happy to depressed. Imagine all the work to be done terracing that to control erosion and then having to wait 3 years at least before the fruit trees start getting productive.
the other people who used to lease it grow it for corn/vegetables until most of the topsoil had washed away. So now we get to lease it because the government knows we grow fruit trees and by leasing it to us we'd definitely put trees in there and help keep the mountainside from getting more eroded. When we asked for more land we thought they would give us the one near us and not the other side of the mountain
last Friday after we got home from the city hall to sign papers and stuff when I told our farm people which patch of land we got everyone went from happy to depressed. Imagine all the work to be done terracing that to control erosion and then having to wait 3 years at least before the fruit trees start getting productive. 
