This is where we started the project back in 1978 !!!! Only now they've come up with succes ???? I've lived @ Bura irrigation project for 2.5 years back that time, untill we were hunted away by corruption.... IMAGIN, i cannot believe my eyes
Something that the Mesopotamians started tens of thousands of years ago and we are only getting wind of and utilising it now, after losing thousands, perhaps millions to hunger! Kwa kweli tuko nyuma kama mkia ya nguruwe. And i am sure a greedy politician is eyeing this project drooling over the amount of money he can siphon out of it.
Hi SB. I am also itching to participate. The initial objective of the irrigation schemes was to provide a livelihood for landless with reliance on family labour. Given the lack of alternative employment, little opportunity cost, hence use of family labour, the GM of one ha maize should be favourable. The only problem is the water, which has a cost and yet Kenyan Irrigation Schemes do not value it. Whatever the cost, why cant Kenya subsidize its agriculture when other countries and EU subsidize?
Ruto will use this scheme as his campaign tool, if at all he doesn't steal the maize. So let this be a government success and not for Ruto to steal any limelight.
@dan: Good progress report...I am curious how much it will cost to produce a 90 Kg bag of maize once the harvest is ready. Let's not count our chicken...yet!
Not only that but this is like a drop of ink in a bucket of water. For this to even mean anything considering Kenya's population, it would have to be in the hundreds of thousands of acres. Never the less it is better than last year.
@siasabora, exactly siasaB. I am equally curious about the same.Worse, the reporter talks of farmers and all I see are some uniformed North Korean looking men.I also think Ruto is thoroughly misguided.There is not enough water in the Tana, unless he has no idea about the source Tana and what the river used to look like. Untrammelled irrigation along the Tana River will result into negative consequences in the Tana Delta. Good idea but needs fine tuning and lots of transparency
there may be no enough water in the Tana but think if we just utilized all our water for irrigation instead of it draining all the way to the indian ocean and Lake victoria. We have many Rivers like the Athi passing through the famine prone dry Ukambani region, yet the soil is this part of Kenya is the most fertile and productive. If we just used that water for irrigation hunger would be a thing of the past.
This is where we started the project back in 1978 !!!! Only now they've come up with succes ???? I've lived @ Bura irrigation project for 2.5 years back that time, untill we were hunted away by corruption.... IMAGIN, i cannot believe my eyes
omongina 1 year ago
Something that the Mesopotamians started tens of thousands of years ago and we are only getting wind of and utilising it now, after losing thousands, perhaps millions to hunger! Kwa kweli tuko nyuma kama mkia ya nguruwe. And i am sure a greedy politician is eyeing this project drooling over the amount of money he can siphon out of it.
nedatronics 2 years ago
good job
melionsden 2 years ago
Hi SB. I am also itching to participate. The initial objective of the irrigation schemes was to provide a livelihood for landless with reliance on family labour. Given the lack of alternative employment, little opportunity cost, hence use of family labour, the GM of one ha maize should be favourable. The only problem is the water, which has a cost and yet Kenyan Irrigation Schemes do not value it. Whatever the cost, why cant Kenya subsidize its agriculture when other countries and EU subsidize?
Savai333 2 years ago
Ruto will use this scheme as his campaign tool, if at all he doesn't steal the maize. So let this be a government success and not for Ruto to steal any limelight.
karuitha 2 years ago
we have all this things but we also have very corrupt politicans like Ruto who will steal the maize and sell it to South Sudan
72okoths 2 years ago
good work for now, but I still see a downfall. ie. is there a Tana water reservoir/dam for focused on agriculture?
daniells71 2 years ago
@dan: Good progress report...I am curious how much it will cost to produce a 90 Kg bag of maize once the harvest is ready. Let's not count our chicken...yet!
siasabora 2 years ago
Not only that but this is like a drop of ink in a bucket of water. For this to even mean anything considering Kenya's population, it would have to be in the hundreds of thousands of acres. Never the less it is better than last year.
daniells71 2 years ago
@daniells71 It's a good start though. that is undeniable.
nedatronics 2 years ago
@siasabora, exactly siasaB. I am equally curious about the same.Worse, the reporter talks of farmers and all I see are some uniformed North Korean looking men.I also think Ruto is thoroughly misguided.There is not enough water in the Tana, unless he has no idea about the source Tana and what the river used to look like. Untrammelled irrigation along the Tana River will result into negative consequences in the Tana Delta. Good idea but needs fine tuning and lots of transparency
shondeshonde 2 years ago
@shonde: Just like rice that they used to grow here...it cost more than Uchumi's. Costs matter.
siasabora 2 years ago
there may be no enough water in the Tana but think if we just utilized all our water for irrigation instead of it draining all the way to the indian ocean and Lake victoria. We have many Rivers like the Athi passing through the famine prone dry Ukambani region, yet the soil is this part of Kenya is the most fertile and productive. If we just used that water for irrigation hunger would be a thing of the past.
karuitha 2 years ago