{"id":209570,"date":"2025-10-11T19:57:50","date_gmt":"2025-10-11T17:57:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-ruto-orders-5pc-of-cdf-funds-allocated-to-tree-seedling-development\/"},"modified":"2025-10-11T19:57:50","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T17:57:50","slug":"kenya-ruto-orders-5pc-of-cdf-funds-allocated-to-tree-seedling-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-ruto-orders-5pc-of-cdf-funds-allocated-to-tree-seedling-development\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Ruto Orders 5pc of CDF Funds Allocated to Tree Seedling Development"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">Nairobi \u2014 President William Ruto says the government has ring-fenced 5 percent of Constituency Development Fund (CDF) allocations for tree seedling development.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">Speaking after leading a national fruit tree planting exercise at State House, Nairobi, President Ruto said the funds will support youth-led seedling production efforts, contributing to the national target of planting 15 billion trees by 2032.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">The Head of State noted that the country has fallen behind its annual tree-planting targets,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202510100167.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 East Africa <a title=\"Kenya\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/east-africa\/kenya\/\">Kenya<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nairobi \u2014 President William Ruto says the government has ring-fenced 5 percent of Constituency Development Fund (CDF) allocations for tree seedling development. Speaking after leading a national fruit tree planting exercise at State House, Nairobi, President Ruto said the funds will support youth-led seedling production efforts, contributing to the national target of planting 15 billion [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":209571,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[44510,258,256,19740,37330,5989,5782,4688,430,257,6186,11238,27931,254,10450],"class_list":["post-209570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-5pc","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-allocated","tag-cdf","tag-development","tag-funds","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-news","tag-orders","tag-ruto","tag-seedling","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tree"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209570\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}