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 Irrigation project has brought relief to many residents who have now abandoned sand and clay soil harvesting for rice farming.