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    "id": 1232942,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Soipan Tuya",
    "speaker_title": "The Cabinet Secretary for Environment, Climate Change and Forestry",
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        "legal_name": "Roselinda Soipan Tuya",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker. The first question is by the Member for Kipkelion East on the issue of seedlings. One of the immediate tasks that we need to engage in as a Ministry in the realisation of the restoration initiative is to do a massive seedling propagation exercise. We have many seeds in the Kenya Forestry Research Institute (KEFRI). What we are yet to do is the propagation of seedlings to meet the good demand we are seeing. Kenyans are ready to partner with Government in planting trees and in restoration efforts. We are capitalising on commercial forestry. We want to do mass production of fruit trees through agroforestry so that there will be value for individual Kenyans who partner with us in planting trees. We target women and youth groups whom we know are fully engaged in nursery propagation. These groups need to be registered with KEFRI for us to work with them. We have an inter-ministerial team that is undertaking the tree growing exercise. Recently in partnership with the Ministry of Water and Sanitation, we drilled a borehole in Londiani and through the support of the college, we are going to have a massive seedling propagation there. We are going to engage the youth and women within your constituency. On the issue of only big sawmillers are benefiting from the allocation of permits for plantation harvesting, as I said, we have a proposal from a process that had been done through a multi-agency taskforce which proposed that issuance of permits should be in the range of 60 to 40 per cent. The 60 per cent should be given to locals and the 40 per cent to others."
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