KBL partners with Purko Development Trust to increase forest cover in Mau Narok
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Kenya Breweries Limited (KBL) has donated Ksh.1.5 million to fund the fencing of 1000 acres and purchase of 100,000 seedlings in the Mau region. This was in collaboration with the Purko Development Trust and other stakeholders in the barley growing sector.
In knowledge of the challenges that barley farmers in the Mau region face as a result of climate change, the partnership aims to plant 1,000 acres of forest in the Purko community farm in the next 3-5 Years. The Mau region entirely depends on rainfall from the East and the Western Blocks of the Mau Forests. However, these blocks of forests have been depleted and sub-divided into human settlement areas causing drastic changes on the rainfall pattern and interfering with the growing seasons of barley and other crops.