New rice irrigation project changes fortunes of farmers
FARMKENYA INITIATIVE Smart Harvest By Boniface Gikandi | March 14th 2021 at 02:00:00 GMT +0300 A rice nursery in Gakonya village in Kiharu, Murang’a where farmers have transformed the former swampy area into rice fields using irrigation water fetched from Rutune river. [Boniface Gikandi, Standard] A newly established rice irrigation project has brought a smile to farmers in semi-arid Gaturi ward in Kiharu, Murang’a County. Thanks to the project started five years ago, the formerly poverty-stricken area in Murang’a has been transformed into a potential food basket. Kimathi-Githuri Ir...
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