{"id":1171,"date":"2022-10-01T07:33:03","date_gmt":"2022-10-01T07:33:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/?p=1171"},"modified":"2022-10-01T14:59:52","modified_gmt":"2022-10-01T14:59:52","slug":"women-enterpreneurs-urges-kenya-to-plant-trees-to-combat-climate-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/index.php\/2022\/10\/01\/women-enterpreneurs-urges-kenya-to-plant-trees-to-combat-climate-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Women Enterpreneurs urges Kenya to plant trees to combat climate change"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/IMG-20220930-WA0057-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1172\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/IMG-20220930-WA0057-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/IMG-20220930-WA0057-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/IMG-20220930-WA0057-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/IMG-20220930-WA0057-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/IMG-20220930-WA0057.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By Maximilla Wafula<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Women Entrepreneurs, &nbsp;Bernadette &nbsp;Owino has urged Kenyans &nbsp;to plant trees &nbsp;in order to combat climate change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\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<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/IMG-20221001-WA0028-500x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1177\" width=\"335\" height=\"685\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/IMG-20221001-WA0028-500x1024.jpg 500w, https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/IMG-20221001-WA0028-146x300.jpg 146w, https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/IMG-20221001-WA0028.jpg 540w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 335px) 100vw, 335px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>She said that even as farmers &nbsp;cultivate food crops they should plant cover crops in order to protect their soil fertility.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bernadette &nbsp;Owino, who was in formal employment, decided to take a leap of faith and engage in &nbsp;farming as an enterprise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She currently has &nbsp;&nbsp;tree seedlings &nbsp;for sale at her farm &nbsp;in Kitengela.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Owino has 1,500 grevalia and 1000 melia seedlings ready for purchase.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She noted that trees have value as they can be sold for timber in &nbsp;10-15 years &nbsp;for between &nbsp;3,000 shs and 7,000 shs each.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Maximilla Wafula Women Entrepreneurs, &nbsp;Bernadette &nbsp;Owino has urged Kenyans &nbsp;to plant trees &nbsp;in order&#8230;<\/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-1171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1171"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1178,"href":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1171\/revisions\/1178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}