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IRRIGATION

Rwanda: Why Agriculture Still Falls Short of Set Targets

Lending to agriculture, and the yield of major crops namely beans, maize, soybean are far from the attainment of Government’s set targets under the...

Rolling blackouts: SA irrigation farmers at the risk of losing all

South Africa’s agriculture sector is on the cusp of a devastating catastrophe because of the country’s inability to provide sufficient electricity to keep the...

Govt Must Prioritise Irrigation, Consider Insurance For Smallholder Farmers

Federal and state governments have been told to shift attention to irrigation away from rain farming due to the perennial flooding across the country. The...

Namibia’s record white maize harvest could rein in imports

A record white maize harvest is expected for Namibian farmers in the 2021/22 production season. By the end of July, about 95 000t of the grain...

Kano State To Boost Irrigation Farming With Over 20 Dams

Governor Abba Kabir Yusuf of Kano State has pledged to judiciously utilize the over 20 existing dams in the state to boost irrigation farming...

Irrigation holds the key to food security in Kenya, let’s adopt it

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...

TANZANIA: Towards the restoration of 26,700 hectares of land through irrigation

Some 26,700 hectares of land will be restored in Tanzania through irrigation. The initiative comes from the National Irrigation Commission of the East African...

Buhari Approves N24bn For NASENI’s Modular Irrigation Project

President Muhammadu Buhari has approved N24 billion for the National Agency for Science and Engineering Infrastructure (NASENI) for the execution of a smart modular...

Kano State To Boost Irrigation Farming With Over 20 Dams

Governor Abba Kabir Yusuf of Kano State has pledged to judiciously utilize the over 20 existing dams in the state to boost irrigation farming...

WHAT AFRICA’S IRRIGATION RENAISSANCE MEANS FOR FOOD SECURITY

The situation is exacerbated by the fact that a bulk of food producers in Africa, up to33 million farmers who produce 70 percent of the food,...

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