Kenya's irrigation potential is about 1.342 million hectares of land. But the government has also pointed out in its long-term plan - Vision 2030 - that an additional 9.2 million hectares in arid and ...
Eight years after quitting her IT job, Linda Kamau stands in a sun-baked field watching solar panels power water pumps.Her solar irrigation service company, Sow Precise Africa, has become a beacon of ...
World Bank IDA funding is being used in Kenya to strengthen and expand a system of irrigation channels that allows farmers to make more use of plentiful water from the Nzoia river. Widening the ...
NAIROBI, KENYA: A Nairobi-based dealer in farm equipment is positioning itself to reap from the growing use of irrigation as the country moves to attain food security. G North and Son, which imports ...
Kenya plans to expand irrigated farmland to 1 million hectares by 2032 50 mega-dams, 200 medium dams planned to support water capture Goal is to cut $3B annual food imports, boost local production ...
A project implemented by the government in partnership withthe Equity Bank and the KFW Development Bank of Germany is transformingsmall-holder farmers’ livelihoods in the Mt Kenya region.The ...
Along the sun-drenched banks of the River Nzoia in western Kenya, a quiet transformation is taking root. Fields that once lay bare, scorched by droughts and battered by unpredictable floods, now ...