Maambal Orchard - a brief description

The property is located at Brgy. Maambal, Pozorrubio, Pangasinan. It is about about 7.5 km  from the town proper of Pozorrubio, and roughly 10.5 km from the TPLEX exit in the same town. Maambal is Pozorrubio's westernmost barangay, bordering the town of San Jacinto, whose town proper is just a little over 5 km away. 

The paved (but damaged in some portions) Pozorrubio - San Jacinto Road is at least 6 m wide and can accommodate the largest street-legal vehicles. From this main road, a 5-m wide unpaved barangay road provides access to the orchard, which is about 350 meters away.

The property has a frontage of over 120 meters to an 8-meter wide barangay road lot ( with a 5 m wide carriageway)

With an area of 16,000 plus square meters, all fully covered with trees or green grass, Maambal Orchard is an impressive eye candy when viewed from the air. Dotting the undulating terrain, the well-planned, orderly rows of fruit trees contrast with the randomly located mango and acacia trees. Some photogenic buri palm trees serve as icing to the landscape cake.

 

Fruits of one of the many atis trees (sugar apple) found in the orchard are almost ready to be picked.

 

A close look at a couple of fire ants loitering around the nearly ripe atis fruit.

 

A panoramic view of the middle of the orchard, with the camera pointed eastward (click image to enlarge).

 

The long CHB wall in front is plastered on both sides, topped with a 1.2 meter high cyclone wire, then capped with spiralling razor wire. Vertical bamboo slats attached to the cyclone wire provide privacy from onlookers. This type of fence system was built along the two longest sides of the property (east and south borders). For the rest of the boundaries, a 1.8 meter high barbed wire fence topped with razor wire in strategic places was used. 

 

The 6-meter wide main gate is made of steel plate on GI pipe framing, supported by tension cables on two massive columns.

 

 

A herd of young goats feast on spots of over-grown grass before these are cut clean to the ground.

 

 

Another aerial view - the camera was above the property's western boundary and pointed eastward.