Category: IRRIGATION

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To promote all year-round farming, the Federal Government through the Federal Ministry of Water Resources has handed over twelve rehabilitated irrigation systems to farmers in Kano. The Minister of Water Resources, Suleiman Adamu, at the handing over ceremony on Wednesday, noted that the recipients were farmers under the Kano River Irrigation Scheme (KRIS), saying KRIS…

President Muhammadu Buhari has approved N24 billion for the National Agency for Science and Engineering Infrastructure (NASENI) for the execution of a smart modular irrigation project. Executive vice chairman/CEO of NASENI, Professor Mohammed Sani Haruna, disclosed this to State House correspondents after a meeting with the President at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, on Friday. According…

The Federal government of Nigeria has approved an investment of US $24 billion for the implementation of a smart modular irrigation project in Adamawa State. The approval follows a request to the Nigerian federal government by the National Agency for Scientific and Technical Infrastructure (MASENI) who will carry out all the work. The irrigation project…

Tanzania’s National Irrigation Commission said on Wednesday plans were underway to construct 13 irrigation schemes in the country’s southern highlands breadbasket region of Mbeya, covering 24,550 hectares of land to boost food production. Raymond Mndolwa, the director general of the National Irrigation Commission, said the 13 irrigation schemes will be constructed during the 2022/2023 financial…

The global-smart irrigation market is expected to grow at a compound annual rate of 15,2% from 2021 to 2030, according to Quince Market Insights. And remarkably, this is off an already a huge base: the market reached an estimated value of US$1,15 trillion (about R17,5 trillion) in 2021. In its January 2022 global report, Quince Market…

President Muhammadu Buhari has approved N24 billion for the National Agency for Science and Engineering Infrastructure (NASENI) for the execution of a smart modular irrigation project. Executive vice chairman/CEO of NASENI, Professor Mohammed Sani Haruna, disclosed this to State House correspondents after a meeting with the President at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, on Friday. According…

MEMBERS of Parliament have hailed President Samia Suluhu Hassan for raising the budget of the Ministry of Agriculture budget and called upon the government to throw its weight behind irrigation farming. In the current financial year, the Ministry for Agriculture was allocated 294bn/- but in the next budget the government will spend a whopping 751bn/-…

Tanzania’s National Irrigation Commission said on Wednesday plans were underway to construct 13 irrigation schemes in the country’s southern highlands breadbasket region of Mbeya, covering 24,550 hectares of land to boost food production. Raymond Mndolwa, the director general of the National Irrigation Commission, said the 13 irrigation schemes will be constructed during the 2022/2023 financial…

Irrigation schemes in sub-Saharan Africa don’t measure up to their plans according to new research into the projects by scientists. Many of the schemes were found to be consistently delivering a much smaller area of irrigation or are completely broken and things aren’t improving. Large-scale irrigation infrastructure projects are back on the development agenda in…