Kenyan Government to distribute tree seedlings through chiefs, government minister Soipan Tuya announces
Kenya's Environment, Climate Change and Forestry Cabinet Secretary Soipan Tuya has announced a Government plan to distribute tree seedlings through chiefs in an effort to accelerate tree growing activities across the country. “The (tree growing) targets we have set touch on each and every individual Kenyan. We have set targets on the number of trees that each Kenyan is expected to grow.
“We will ensure that seedlings are accessible starting at the chief’s level so that any Kenyan can walk to a chief’s office to collect seedlings to grow in their farms,” Tuya announced.
The Cabinet Secretary spoke on Monday morning at Ngong Road-Southern Bypass Interchange road reserve where she led Ministry of Environment, Climate and Forestry, and Kenya National Highways Authority (KenHA) staff in a rapid tree growing exercise.
The 15 billion national tree growing and ecosystem restoration programme strategy identifies road reserves and wayleaves as potential sites for planting trees in an intervention christened, ‘greening infrastructure’.
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