State fund-release delays pushed farmers to plant outside the rainy season, dooming crops.

Evidence

P1: The state has a whole bureaucratic process, right? For releasing funds and all that. We already knew the process of planting cashew trees, how to take care of them. One of the difficulties was the delay, right? It [the funds] took a long time to be released and then when it [the funds] finally came, it was really late. We had already prepared the land when it was finally released… … P2: We managed to plant only in May. It should have started in January, during the rainy season, but since it wasn’t approved earlier, it took a long time. It was only at the very end of the rainy season. And when we went to plant, we were already facing a lack of rain. — Jessica Carrick-Hagenbarth, Institutional Bricolage and Commoning…, 106

Categorization

• ADDENDUM: Direct supporting material for the trees-as-infrastructure article: bureaucratic timing vs. ecological calendar — a vivid case of an institution misaligned with nature’s seasonality killing trees.
• corroborated: 3 independent passages support this claim — Jessica Carrick-Hagenbarth, Institutional Bricolage and Commoning…, 106