We need to restore the green cover – Kabalae RDC Nyakahuma 

Kabale – Godfrey Nyakahuma, the Kabale Resident District Commissioner has urged government, and all stakeholders to look a strategic plan to protect the environment through forest planting.

Nyakahuma said this on Wednesday while addressing and closing a one-day workshop organized by Kabale district Local Government environment stakeholders and Ministry of Water at Kirigime Guest House in Kabale municipality.

He further raised concern on how people have encroached on wetlands and also randomly cutting down trees, which has resulted into soil erosion and eventually loss of soil fertility hence less harvests which is unlike before because Kabale and Kigezi sub-region was known for being fertile.

The RDC said that this program of tree planting should be extended to all districts of Uganda such that the destructed vegetation is recovered saying that as a developing country over 70 % of Ugandans use charcoal for related domestic purposes which has left hills with no green cover.

However, Nyakahuma stated that people have failed to adopt methods of farming like terracing, afforestation which has led to soil erosion from the hills down into the valleys because of the terrain of the area, saying if this  continues is expected to affect Uganda’s population in terms of economic livelihood.

On the other hand, Nyakahuma said that it has also affected agricultural production where the harvests have subsequently reduced in terms of output which will again affect the population if there is continuous reduction of harvests currently compared to years back, which is not controlling the population, predicting that if this is not tackled it may led to poverty and famine among the families in the country.