This year’s Meru ASK show was marked under the theme “Promoting Climate Smart and Trade Initiatives for Sustainable Economic Growth”. The County Forestry Office exhibited the various agroforestry programmes such fodder banks,nitrogen fixing plants, PELIS system and diverse seedling production for various rehabilitation programmes to support the 15 billion tree growing program with emphasis on the 11 thematic areas.
Technologies in seedlings production were demonstrated through the model nurseries which cuts on cost of production to maximize production and enhance seedlings survival.
Other innovations of interest were the use of drone for surveillance, seeding and mapping of degraded areas and the use of artificial intelligence, and survey 123 to monitor forest disturbances in gazetted forests.
