Kibaki on Irrigation Schemes.

The country has finally set off the process of beating the vagaries of weather to ensure food security. This is after the government finally unveiled the food production stimulus package in which the country will put more emphasis to irrigation as opposed to rain fed agriculture. And to kick off the exercise President Mwai Kibaki was today among a host of top government leaders who witnessed the unveiling of the hitherto defunct Hola irrigation scheme which has the potential of producing nearly 15 million bags of maize in just one season. It is hoped that the revival of this and other irrigation schemes in the country like Perkera, Ahero, Mwea, Tana Delta, and Bunyala, among others, would boost food production and help Kenya escape from the grip of perennial hunger once and for all.

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[tyty1794]

Sell it to the Qataris.

[karuitha]

Why do we have our rivers draining to the Indian ocean and to Lake Victoria where the water drains to the Nile and heads to feed the Egyptians

[mytime81]

If the river changes its course, manipulate it to have re-distributaries. Japanese created a new river called Edo river from Tone river 400 years ago by manual labour before they had contact with the west. Today its a huge river flowing through modern day Tokyo. Kenyans are good sayers but poor doers.

[siasabora]

Now if only these two did start projects like this weekly all over....we would have no problem with them.