JGSOC reaches halfway mark of its One-million Trees Project

BATANGAS LGU OFFICIALS AND JGSOC EXECUTIVES LED THE COMMEMORATIVE TREE PLANTING OF THE

500,000TH SEEDLING AT THE JGSOC PETROCHEMICAL COMPLEX, FROM LEFT: JGSOC Assistant Vice-president for Special Projects Deogracias Fermin, Senior Vice-president and Government Affairs and Special Projects Head Marino Agbayani, Batangas 5th District Congressman Mario Vittorio Mariño, Batangas City Mayor Beverly Rose Dimacuha, Executive Assistant to Batangas Governor Carlos Jose Pastor and Batangas Provincial Government Environment and Natural Resources Officer Luis Awitan.

JUST in time for the celebration of Philippine Environment Month in June and coinciding with Philippine Arbor Day last June 25, 2022, JG Summit Olefins Corporation (JGSOC) commemorated an important milestone on its One Million Trees Project after it reached the halfway mark.

A symbolic planting of the 500,000th seedling was held at the the JGSOC Petrochemical Complex in Batangas City led by Batangas government officials. Select JGSOC executives and employees were also present during the commemorative tree planting as they also planted an additional fifty-four mahogany, mulawin and balayong tree seedlings in various selected areas inside the complex.

To date, 88% of the tree seedlings that were donated and planted were in various localities in Batangas province while 12% of the seedlings were given to various government agencies,

civic groups, schools and employee volunteers including the planting of seedlings in Boracay Wetland No.8 in Malay, Aklan, which up until recently was adopted by JGSOC as part of its sustainability activities.

The One Million Trees Project of the JGSOC was launched in 2016, which targets the planting of one million indigenous and fruitbearing tree seedlings in Batangas province, the host province of JGSOC’S petrochemical business, and in other areas where regreening and forest rehabilitation projects are needed.

JGSOC maintains a tree nursery in its manufacturing complex, from which the donated seedlings are nurtured prior to distribution. Some of the seedlings that were donated and planted since the start of this project include forest trees such as narra, molave, caballero and mahogany and fruit-bearing trees such as cacao, dalanghita, rambutan, mango, kalamansi, lemon and guyabano.