Shamba System

Plantation Establishment and Livelihood Improvement System (PELIS) was introduced in 2007 after enactment of Forest Act, 2005 

     Photo: A section of Marmanet Forest 

His Excellency Rigathi Gachagua is on the right path. 

PELIS(Shamba System) was so helpful to many people living around the forests. 

Logging and timber harvesting was also banned in 2018. This left saw millers high and dry. 

The trees they were supposed to harvest rotted long ago. 

Why should a country with good soils and climate import wood from China, Egypt, Arab Rep., India, Tanzania and United Kingdom yet we can grow fast growing trees like Cypress using PELIS? 

Cypress tree takes at least 5 years to mature. It has a rotational age of 28 years and within this time thinning is done 4 times before final crop.

"The shamba system is a way to afforest land where exotic trees have been cut for timber. The community benefits from being able to plant crops in exchange for planting tree seedlings and taking care of the growing trees for three years," UN Environment Program (UNEP)

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