Category: IRRIGATION

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…

Netflix co-founder Reed Hastings and former Alphabet CEO Eric Schmidt, via their foundation, recently participated in a funding round for an African solar irrigation startup based in Kenya. SunCulture, headquartered in Nairobi, announced that the two billionaires joined other investors, including InfraCo Africa and Acumen Fund, in injecting $27 million into the company. The startup…

Turkana county government plans will invest at least Sh600 million on a new mega drip irrigation project to boost food security.   Governor Jeremiah Lomorukai said Sh600 million that was recently used to procure relief food could be invested in food production, making the devolved unit food sufficient. He said that the irrigation project will be…

As the effects of climate change intensify, rain dependent crop production is becoming more challenging for smallholder farmers in Malawi, Tanzania, and Zambia. Farmers often experience either too little or too much rain to effectively grow their crops, which means growing crops under irrigation is becoming key to building resilience to climate shocks. However, smallholder…

Somali State said that it has been constructing medium scale irrigation infrastructures around Shebele, Dawa and Genele rivers. Approached by The Ethiopian Herald, Somali State Chief Administrator Advisor Ahmed Ismail said that the state has been developing multi pastoralist communities’ resilience strategy in order to mitigate climate change and drought. Since the state is affected…

ON the heels of the International Clean Energy Day commemorated January 26, 2024, HortiNigeria, with funding from the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Nigeria, in the bid to boost food security has empowered farmers in the horticultural subsector with solar-powered pumps in Kaduna, Kano, Ogun, and Oyo States. Since 2021, the Dutch-funded…

Turkana County has commenced reviving various irrigation projects, in a bid to enhance crop production. Director for Administration in the Department of Agriculture, Livestock Development, and Fisheries, Joram Ewoton, confirmed when he officiated a site handover, for the rehabilitation and repair of the Kangalita/Lojokobwo Surface Irrigation Scheme. “Once the restoration of the schemes is complete,…

Governor Abba Kabir Yusuf of Kano State has pledged to judiciously utilize the over 20 existing dams in the state to boost irrigation farming and supplement the rainy season. Yusuf made the pledge in Kano on Tuesday while receiving the Minister of Water Resources and Sanitation, Prof. Joseph T. Utsev, who is in Kano on…