{"id":1005,"date":"2022-10-01T16:27:39","date_gmt":"2022-10-01T16:27:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dailykenya.co.ke\/?p=1005"},"modified":"2022-10-02T18:13:27","modified_gmt":"2022-10-02T18:13:27","slug":"women-enterpreneur-urges-kenyans-to-plant-trees-to-combat-climate-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailykenya.co.ke\/index.php\/2022\/10\/01\/women-enterpreneur-urges-kenyans-to-plant-trees-to-combat-climate-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Women Enterpreneur urges Kenyans to plant trees to combat climate change"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/dailykenya.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/IMG-20221001-WA0028_1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1006\" width=\"280\" height=\"279\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dailykenya.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/IMG-20221001-WA0028_1.jpg 540w, https:\/\/dailykenya.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/IMG-20221001-WA0028_1-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dailykenya.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/IMG-20221001-WA0028_1-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 280px) 100vw, 280px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By Maximilla Wafula <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kenyans have been urged to plant lots of trees as a way of mitigating the now eminent climate change phenomenon. Woman Entrepreneur, Ms. Bernadette Owino, proprietor of My Belle Maison has said. She said this recently during the ECOBank Ellevate launch at a Nairobi hotel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cPeople should&nbsp;be taught to plant more trees as they attract rain while ensuring soil fertility. It is also common knowledge that trees curb soil erosion&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She observed that even as farmers cultivate food crops they should plant cover crops in order to protect soil fertility.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ms. Owino, who left formal employment to take a leap of faith to engage in farming as an enterprise currently nurtures\u00a0tree seedlings for sale at her farm in Kitengela. She has more than 1,500 grevalia and 1000 melia seedlings ready for sale. This is besides the ornamental flowers she also grows for sale.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She notes that depending on the variety, a 10 year old tree can fetch upwards of 10,000 if sold mature for timber.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"http:\/\/dailykenya.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/IMG-20220930-WA0059-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1007\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dailykenya.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/IMG-20220930-WA0059-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/dailykenya.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/IMG-20220930-WA0059-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dailykenya.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/IMG-20220930-WA0059-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/dailykenya.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/IMG-20220930-WA0059-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/dailykenya.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/IMG-20220930-WA0059.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thus, her parting shot was that everyone should plant trees, even it for fun!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cPeople should\u00a0 be taught to plant more trees. It attracts more rain while trees ensure that the soil will not be eroded,\u201d Owino said during the ECOBank \u00a0Ellevate launch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Maximilla Wafula Kenyans have been urged to plant lots of trees as a way of mitigating the now eminent climate change phenomenon. Woman Entrepreneur, Ms. Bernadette Owino, proprietor of My Belle Maison has said. She said this recently during the ECOBank Ellevate launch at a Nairobi hotel. \u201cPeople should&nbsp;be taught to plant more trees [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailykenya.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailykenya.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailykenya.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailykenya.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailykenya.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1005"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dailykenya.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1013,"href":"https:\/\/dailykenya.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005\/revisions\/1013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailykenya.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailykenya.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailykenya.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}