Category: 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 country, which has just signed partnership agreements with several companies. In Tanzania, the government is multiplying initiatives to reduce food insecurity among the population. On 8 August 2022, the country’s National…

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…

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…

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, are smallholder farmers who have traditionally relied on rain-fed agriculture for their production. Now, with erratic rainfall patterns and extreme climate conditions, farmers have recorded crop failures and dismal yields that continue…

The Agricultural and Rural Development Journalists Association (GARDJA), has called on foreign development partners to consider supporting Ghanaian smallholder farmers to develop and use simple irrigation systems in the food production cycle. Mr Richmond Frimpong, President of GARDJA, who made the call, said it was important that reliable all year-round water systems infrastructure were made…

Chinese farmers have greatly increased maize plantings this year at the expense of soya bean and other crops, including sorghum and edible beans. This was in an attempt to cash in on record prices fuelled by strong demand. It was expected that this trend would reduce the country’s recent strong demand for maize imports going…

Tobacco farmers in the country have been urged to shift to other healthier alternatives for their own health and that of the nation. The Non-Communicable Diseases Alliance-Kenya Vice Chairperson, Mr. David Mukami, disclosed that tobacco kills over 9,000 Kenyans every year, as this is according to the Ministry of Health. “These deaths come from diseases…

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, are smallholder farmers who have traditionally relied on rain-fed agriculture for their production. Now, with erratic rainfall patterns and extreme climate conditions, farmers have recorded crop failures and dismal yields that continue…

The Agricultural and Rural Development Journalists Association (GARDJA), has called on foreign development partners to consider supporting Ghanaian smallholder farmers to develop and use simple irrigation systems in the food production cycle. Mr Richmond Frimpong, President of GARDJA, who made the call, said it was important that reliable all year-round water systems infrastructure were made…

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 country, which has just signed partnership agreements with several companies. In Tanzania, the government is multiplying initiatives to reduce food insecurity among the population. On 8 August 2022, the country’s National…