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Kenya is courting Portugal for financing and private investment to bring one million additional acres under irrigation, targeting non-traditional partners to fund its agricultural transformation.
The government has launched a national survey on rice production as it seeks to cut Kenya’s annual rice deficit of 700,000 metric tonnes and reduce reliance on imports costing more than Sh56 billion.
Nine years after Kenya adopted a national irrigation policy, the government has acknowledged the framework failed to keep pace with changes in the sector it was meant to govern.
Kenya is tightening oversight of irrigation projects as it deepens its partnership with the World Bank to expand water access and improve agricultural productivity under a national development plan.
Turkana County, has been food insecure for decades now, although after embracing irrigation, food production is visible.
Women and girls continue to bear the heaviest burden of water insecurity in Kenya despite contributing up to 70 per cent of all agricultural labour.
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