Rabai Cultural Village Nursery Training Report

The Rabai cultural village was started in February 2013 and registered under the Ministry of culture and social services in the same year following the realization by the local community of the need to conserve their culture and the kaya forests. Traditional healing practices using herbal medicine is a key activity in the cultural village and thus the disappearance of key herbal plants used in the cultural village has necessitated the need to train the group on appropriate nursery management practices in a bid to ensure sustainable production of medicinal trees and wild food plants used by the group. Furthermore, the village has established a community nursery group focusing on raising indigenous medicinal plants in the kaya but lack of knowledge on the propagation of some difficult to propagate species as well as inadequate knowledge of best nursery management practices has been a hindrance to their activities.