Govt urges people to Grow more trees to mitigate climate change
November 4, 2024
Govt urges people to Grow more trees to mitigate climate change
The Government has urged its people to embark on Massive
tree growing across the country so as to mitigate on issues of Climate change.
Deputy Chief of Staff, Performance and Delivery Management
Eliud Owalo says by growing more trees across the country, it will help in revitalizing
the environment into sustainability.
He says the tree growing is important in many ways namely trees being a source of revenue among others.
Addressing the press at the Maseno School in Kisumu County where
he helped to plant about 10,000 trees within the school, Owalo said the
Government has a program of planting and growing 15 billion trees across the
country by the year 2032.
Owalo says Kisumu County is below the national target for
tree planting of ten percent tree cover all over the country adding that Kisumu
is at 8.85 percent.
Owalo says the national tree cover is above the ten percent
set target, adding that it is at 12.1 percent.
He says it will go up to 30 percent across the country,
adding that Kisumu County alone should have an annual target of planting over
9million trees.
“That means that within the next ten years, in Kisumu County
alone, we shall have planted and grown over 91million trees,” Owalo says.
The Deputy Chief of Staff says such a target is achievable
because within ten years more professionals will be engaged in tree growing.
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