THE government plan to rehabilitate 426 irrigation schemes across Zimbabwe is, on paper, one of the most promising interventions aimed at improving livelihoods and uplifting communities, particularly ...

Ministry of Agriculture has reaffirmed Government commitment of scaling up irrigation as one way of boosting social economic growth of Malawi economic status. Deputy Director of Irrigation Services in ...

The Minister of Water Resources, Mr Suleiman Adamu, has called on farmers and Water Users Associations (WUA) to take ownership of public irrigation systems in the country. Adamu said this at the ...

The Andhra Pradesh government has allocated ₹595 crore for the restoration of 611 defunct lift irrigation schemes across the State, Water Resources Minister Nimmala Ramanaidu informed the Assembly on ...

KENYA: The Coalition for Reforms and Democracy (CORD) has pledged its government will establish more irrigation schemes to guarantee food security. The team took its campaigns to Tana River County ...

Title: Turkana mulls expansion of irrigation schemes to boost food production Turkana County plans to establish a County Irrigation Development Unit to expand and manage irrigation projects in the ...

In 1938, French colonial authorities in what is today Mali started on an ambitious infrastructure plan to transform the desert into an area of agricultural production. Water was diverted from the ...

The Kpong Irrigation Scheme Rehabilitation and Modernisation Project, under the World Bank-funded Food System Resilience Project (FSRP), covers a total area of 4,040 hectares. The 22.5-million-dollar ...

The micro-scale irrigation project, one of the renewable energy intervention strategies targeting smallholder farmers, has run into headwinds, with farmers saying it is not performing to their ...