Roselinda Soipan Tuya

All parliamentary appearances

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• 19 Apr 2023 in National Assembly: On the rationale behind the ban on maize cultivation, first I want to say that the PELIS is a practice that is undertaken as non-resident cultivation. It is provided for in law under the Forest Conservation and Management Act. This is a practice that only happens within commercial plantation areas, and not indigenous forests. Sections 48, 49 and 50 of the Forest Conservation and Management Act No.34 of 2016 speak to the issue of community participation in forest conservation and management. This, read together with the Sustainable Management Rules of 2009, afford communities adjacent to forests the opportunity to practise ... view
• 19 Apr 2023 in National Assembly: For the information of the House, the Kenya Forest Service is in charge of 2.59 million hectares of forests in this country. Of this 2.59 hectares, 94 per cent which is about 2.3 million hectares is indigenous forests. The remaining six per cent, which is approximately 150,000 hectares is commercial plantations. The rationale for having commercial plantations within gazetted forests is to provide a buffer or cushion to indigenous forests from exploitation. It is also to provide timber and other wood products that are required for the timber industry. Having commercial plantations will generally deflate attention and demand of forest ... view
• 19 Apr 2023 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, before issuing a cultivation permit, the Kenya Forest Service, in line with its rule 58 of the Forest Participation and Sustainable Forest Management Rules, is required to issue comprehensive operational guidelines to avoid any abuse of communities having activities within the commercial plantation areas. The cultivation permits that are issued are subject to certain conditions which include planting only of annual crops that are approved by the Service. In return, the communities will be required to render assistance to the Service in beating up or replanting, whichever maybe appropriate in cases of low survival rates of seedlings as ... view
• 19 Apr 2023 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, in 2000, we had the ban on maize cultivation within plantation areas. This was largely informed by the abuse and subversion of guidelines that are supposed to guide the process of PELIS, which is a delicate process. The ban on maize cultivation in plantations was informed by the fact that maize grows very fast and ends up covering young tree seedlings. This ends up reducing the growth rate of the tree seedlings due to shading. The retarded tree seedlings were often chopped during maize harvesting by the employees of the PELIS scheme thus resulting in poor forest plantation ... view
• 19 Apr 2023 in National Assembly: After the ban, it was established that it hampered the main intention of allowing PELIS in forest plantations which was to encourage participatory forest management. Therefore, it negatively affected the establishment of new plantations. After the ban, we also had an enmasse abandonment by communities of plots that had been allocated to them for cultivation in the PELIS arrangement. This was more pronounced in the Mau, the North Rift and Western conservancies. Due to the ban, the cordial relationship and cooperation between the communities and Kenya Forest Service was greatly affected. This resulted in the abandonment of community participation in ... view
• 19 Apr 2023 in National Assembly: Given the foregoing results, the Kenya Forest Service, after careful consideration of the negative impacts on the ban of maize growing in plantation areas particularly on establishment of commercial forests plantations, approved the re-inclusion of maize amongst the crops that can be grown in PELIS areas. This is done while putting in mitigation measures to allow for the negative impacts of intercropping maize with the plantations that caused the ban. This was done vide a resolution by the Kenya Forest Service Board of Directors in April 2023. view
• 19 Apr 2023 in National Assembly: Moving to the next Question, the Member seems to be correlating the supposed massive decrease in forest cover percentage in Elgeyo Marakwet County to the ban on maize cultivation under PELIS. From our own observation, there is no correlation between the forest cover and maize cultivation issues under PELIS. According to Section 8 of the Forest Conservation and Management Act, 2016, the KFS is required to prepare a forest status report every two years and a forest resources assessment report every five years for the Cabinet Secretary. view
• 19 Apr 2023 in National Assembly: Can I proceed, Hon. Speaker? view
• 19 Apr 2023 in National Assembly: There is that requirement for the Service to provide a forest resource assessment report every five years. According to the first national forest resource assessment report, which was done in 2021, Elgeyo Marakwet County has a forest cover of 20.53 per cent and a tree cover of 29.95 per cent, respectively. There has not been any further scientific assessment report with regard to the forest cover. So, I cannot speak to the variance that the Member is alluding to until we have another scientific assessment report, which will give us the forest cover variation in the county, but we have ... view
• 19 Apr 2023 in National Assembly: very stringent enforcement measures. In this regard, we have put in place a programme to sensitise Community Forest Associations (CFAs) across the country in various conservancies and we have held several meetings, the first of which was in March this year. We have planned subsequent meetings because one of the flagship projects of the Kenya Kwanza Government is the restoration effort through planting of 15 billion trees and winning the goodwill of communities, particularly forest-adjacent communities. As a Ministry, we are also planning to actively engage the CFAs in participatory forest management meetings going forward, and assist them to come ... view