The Ministry of Public Works and Transportation (MOPT) works together with the Institutional Assistance Center of Liberia (CAI), in the production of some five thousand plants that are required for the sustainable garden that will be built next year under the overpass in Liberia, Guanacaste.
The sustainable garden will have seven thousand square meters and will have species such as large tunas, agaves, icacos, senna leaf, vanilla, veraneras, euphorbia, among many others.
Engineer Steven Piedra, Director of Road Safety and Beautification of MOPT, explained that the work together with the CAI of Liberia, allows not only to have the plants that are required but also to reinsert the inmates into society.
They will fulfill the task of producing the plants in the nursery that they have in prison, which guarantees that the species grow adapted to the climate of the area and do not suffer once they are transplanted.
This year the sustainable garden of Bagaces was completed. Here, 1,500 species under the care of the local government were planted, while in Cañas there are 3,500 plants, whose maintenance is carried out by the Taboga mill and the local government.