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Planting grass, trees will provide water, restore livelihoods

A section of Maasai Mau Forest that has been cleared for the plantation of Tea by Nyayo Tea Zone. [Kipsang Joseph, Standard]

Hilole Soman inspects the grass seedlings in his vast farm in Bularahma village within the Tana Delta.

The sprouting seedlings are part of an ambitious project aimed at restoring degraded grazing fields.

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