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The Bunyala irrigation scheme water pump. The water pump provides water from the Nzoia River to all the rice paddies in Bunyala.
The Bunyala irrigation scheme water pump. The water pump provides water from the Nzoia River to all the rice paddies in Bunyala.
The Bunyala irrigation scheme water pump. The water pump provides water from the Nzoia River to all the rice paddies in Bunyala.
The Bunyala irrigation scheme water pump. The water pump provides water from the Nzoia River to all the rice paddies in Bunyala.
A sluice gate in the Bunyala irrigation scheme. The water comes from the Nzoia River to irrigate all the rice paddies in Bunyala.
A man pedaling through the rice paddies.
Farmers removing seedlings from a nursery to be transplanted into an operating rice paddy.
Farmers removing seedlings from a nursery to be transplanted into an operating rice paddy.
Farmers removing seedlings from a nursery to be transplanted into an operating rice paddy until harvest.
Pest management workers wearing protective gear surveying the rice paddies they have come to spray for pest and disease prevention.
Pest management workers wearing protective gear surveying the rice paddies they have come to spray for pest and disease prevention.
A farmer removing seedlings from a nursery to be transplanted into an operating rice paddy until harvest.
A farmer holding a fish he has found and killed in the rice paddie in an effort to prevent it disturbing the recently transplanted seedlings.
Rice fields for producing locally-grown seeds which cuts down on costs. In the past, farmers recieved their seeds from Mwea, incurring high transport costs in the price.
Rice fields for producing locally-grown seeds which cuts down on costs. In the past, farmers recieved their seeds from Mwea, incurring high transport costs in the price.
Recently transplanted rice seedlings. Seedlings remain in the nursery for 21 days before being transplanted into a field where they grow for 120 to 130 days before being harvested.
A rice field, ready for harvest within a few months.
A rice field, ready for harvest within a few months.
Women taking a break from transplanting rice seedlings from a nursery to a prepared rice paddy where they will remain until harvest, some 120 to 130 days later.
Farmers removing seedlings from a nursery to be transplanted into an operating rice paddy until harvest.
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The Bunyala irrigation scheme water pump. The water pump provides water from the Nzoia River to all the rice paddies in Bunyala.
TCP/KEN/3201 - Input supply to vulnerable populations under the ISFP. At the height of the 2008 food price crisis, FAO, through its Initiative on Soaring Food Prices (ISFP), launched a series of one-year input supply projects to help vulnerable farmers grow more food and earn more money. In Kenya, where civil unrest, drought and high food, fuel and input prices have left poor families even more vulnerable, this assistance has given one community hope for a better future. An earlier FAO investment of two new water pumps helped to revive the Ahero Irrigation Scheme, which had collapsed in the late 90s. To reverse the scheme's low output, FAO, in September 2008, worked closely with Kenya's National Irrigation Board (NIB), the Agriculture Finance Cooperation (AFC) and the Rural Environmental Care for Africa (RECA) to provide 540 farming families with high-yielding rice seeds, fertilizers, pesticides and technical assistance. They helped the farmers to organise into smaller groups and connected them to service providers including banks and equipment rental. Thanks to a robust local and regional market for rice, bigger yields from this last harvest meant bigger profits. Local traders bought more than half of what was produced in Ahero, while others came from elsewhere in Kenya and from nearby countries. The World Food Programme (WFP) bought about 40 metric tonnes, which they distributed to drought-affected communities in Kenya's Rift Valley. It was the WFP's first purchase in Kenya under the newly launched "Purchase for Progress" (P4P) - an initiative to link low-income farmers with markets. At a time when Kenyans throughout the country are being made more vulnerable by drought and other shocks, the need for greater investments in agriculture is all the more pressing.
09/25/2009
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