Mochongoi

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Mochongoi
Mochongoi
Location of Mochongoi
Coordinates: 0°18′31″N 36°11′32″E / 0.308635°N 36.192213°E / 0.308635; 36.192213Coordinates: 0°18′31″N 36°11′32″E / 0.308635°N 36.192213°E / 0.308635; 36.192213
Country Kenya
Province Rift Valley Province
District Baringo District

Mochongoi is a community and a division in Baringo District, Kenya.[1] Mochongoi is also an electoral constituency.[2] The town lies in the northern end of the Aberdare Range and is a relatively new settlement in what was the Ol Arabel forest reserve.

The Ol Arabel Forest Reserve is part of the Marmanet forests on the eastern escarpment of the Rift Valley, north of Nyahururu. The forest reserve, which is part of the upper catchment of the Ol Arabel River, once covered 9,629 hectares (23,790 acres), but 6,273 hectares (15,500 acres) were excised in 1993. No boundary plan was defined.[3] As a result about 80% of the forest had been settled by the Mochongoi settlement scheme as of 2008.[4]

The division covers 329 square kilometres (127 sq mi). As of 2001 the population was 11,927.[5] The community includes a secondary school.[6] Maize farmers have protested that middlemen were not paying adequate prices.[7] In October 2007 President Mwai Kibaki said the government would pave the road from Mochongoi to Marigat so farmers could get their produce to market more easily.[8]

References

  1. ↑ "BARINGO DISTRICT". Reliefweb. Retrieved 2012-04-12. 
  2. ↑ RITA DAMARY (19 JANUARY). "Marigat protests IEBC boundary proposals". The Star. Retrieved 2012-04-12. 
  3. ↑ "Mau Complex and Marmanet forests". UNEP. 20 May 2008. Retrieved 2012-04-12. 
  4. ↑ Hilary Kiprop. "Forest Allocation in Kenya". SMS Network. Retrieved 2012-04-12. 
  5. ↑ "BARINGO DISTRICT - DISTRICT STRATEGIC PLAN 2005 - 2010". National Coordinating Agency for Population and Development. May 2005. Retrieved 2012-04-12. 
  6. ↑ "Mochongoi Secondary School". Education in Kenya. Retrieved 2012-04-12. 
  7. ↑ "Maize Farmers Exploited". Kass Media. Retrieved 2012-04-12. 
  8. ↑ "President meets a goodwill delegation from Baringo Central". State House Kenya. October 18, 2007. Retrieved 2012-04-12. 


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