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Horticultural farmers in Kibiri Ward, Homa Bay County, have received generators to boost irrigation and combat the effects of climate change.
Kenya has secured German support to expand smallholder irrigation projects across seven counties in western Kenya following bilateral development talks in Berlin.
Kenya is courting Portugal for financing and private investment to bring one million additional acres under irrigation, targeting non-traditional partners to fund its agricultural transformation.
The government has launched a national survey on rice production as it seeks to cut Kenya’s annual rice deficit of 700,000 metric tonnes and reduce reliance on imports costing more than Sh56 billion.
Nine years after Kenya adopted a national irrigation policy, the government has acknowledged the framework failed to keep pace with changes in the sector it was meant to govern.
Kenya is tightening oversight of irrigation projects as it deepens its partnership with the World Bank to expand water access and improve agricultural productivity under a national development plan.
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