State at a crossroads as logging ban takes a toll on businesses

We should co-ordinate mammoth plans to plant more trees to feed the economy with timbers. FILE PHOTO | NMG

When the government placed a moratorium on logging in public forests, it was aimed at protecting the existing forests as the country eyes to achieve its 10 percent cover by next year.

The target might have been realised according to reports of 2020 by the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics (KNBS) but it has emerged that it had socio-economic implications.

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