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• Planned greening law threatens to uproot tobacco growers 

Use of wood to cure tobacco is causing an environmental crisis in tobacco growing areas of Migori, Kuria, Uriri and Rongo districts even as a new law pushes afforestation programmes to farmers.

Under the Forestry Act set to come in force in May, farmers are required to put a tenth of their farms under trees but the requirement may not be enforceable as farm sizes become increasingly smaller due to subdivision.

Speaking in Kisumu during the Nyanza provincial land preparation field day, agriculture minister William Ruto said tree nurseries would be established in all divisions to enable farmers support environmental conservation programmes.

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