Category: IRRIGATION

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 – that an additional 9.2 million hectares in arid and semi-arid regions have the potential for crop production through irrigation. Irrigation could be achieved mostly by reliance on perennial rivers, underground…

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…

Israel is marketing its new digital irrigation system with an ultimate aim of helping farmers cut down on water waste according to the Agriculture Ministry. This system tells farmers how much water to use based on the most accurate weather information and will save growers unnecessary water costs while preventing produce damage. A simple web…

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…

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 National Strategy for Transformation (NST) due to come to an end next year, recent data indicate. According to the 2021-2022 report by the Ministry of Agriculture, the midterm evaluation of NST1,…

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 wheels of the agricultural value chain rolling. This was according to Nicol Jansen, Agri SA deputy president and president of Agri Northern Cape. He told Farmer’s Weekly that the extended periods without electricity…

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 advice was contained in a communique issue at the end of a one-day consultative meeting on 2023 Kwara State Agriculture Budget in Ilorin, the state capital. The programme was sponsored…

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 had already been delivered to the country’s milling industry, constituting between 70% and 80% of the total harvest. Bertha Iyambo, economist at the Namibia Agricultural Union (NAU), said the good…

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…

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 – that an additional 9.2 million hectares in arid and semi-arid regions have the potential for crop production through irrigation. Irrigation could be achieved mostly by reliance on perennial rivers, underground…