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Isiolo: Residents urged to embrace farming

Isiolo: Residents urged to embrace farming
February 20, 2019 Eastern Newspaper

Residents of Isiolo have been urged to take advantage of dams being constructed by the National Government and venture into farming.

Speaking during an inspection tour of Kilimani dam in Burat ward and the Kilimani Galana irrigation scheme, Isiolo County Secretary Ahmed Galgalo said there was need for residents to embrace farming in order to address the perennial food shortage in the area.

Galgalo said the dam would play a major role in the attainment of food security as envisioned in the Big Four Agenda.

Isiolo County Commissioner John Ondego called for structured policies to ensure that cases of conflict among the water users are minimized upon completion of the dam.

He pledged to continue monitoring and evaluating projects in the county as mandated by the head of state and cautioned contractors against shoddy works, urging them to present value for money to the taxpayers.

The Sh127 million dam that is at 45 per cent completion has a capacity of storing 103million litres of water and can irrigate more than 200 hectares of land and is being funded by the African Development Bank (ADB) targets an estimated 500 farmers in the area in five blocks and aims at improving food security, resilience and creating sustainable livelihoods.

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