By Timothy Wekesa.
In a bid to increase forest cover at Nzoia Sugar Company, KDF soldiers have joined the Nzoia sugar company fraternity in a tree planting corporate event.
The soldiers planted 3,500 trees to boost the company’s annual target of planting 50,000 trees per annum.
Company board Chairman Alfred Khangati said that the event was organised as a progressive contribution towards the National Government plans of making the country green.
Kenya forests programs manager Peterson Kamau who joined the joint tree planting exercise said that the National tree planting program is being embraced by all Kenyans.
He said that all schools in the country,the National Youth Service(NYS),cooperate organizations, prisons ,NGOs ,the Kenya Defence Force(KDF), conservators are all key players in the achieving the target of increasing forest cover in Kenya.
Bungoma County has an annual target of planting 19.3M trees on 30,000 hectares of land per year that has not been achieved.
The National target is 15B trees by the end of 2032.
The KDF soldiers who took part in the tree planting are part of the security officers who have been residing at Nzoia sugar company premises doing diverse activities in preparation for this year’s Madaraka Day celebrations which will be held in the County on June 1.



