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Oxen used to plough the rice paddies in preparation for planting new seedlings, resting on dry land.
A farmer preparing the land, using an ox-plough, for the transplantation of rice seedlings from a nursery.
A man riding a bicycle past the rice paddies where workers are preparing the land using an ox-plough for the transplantation of rice seedlings from a nursery.
A young boy holding harnesses for oxen used to till the land in preparation for planting new seedlings.
A farmer pushing a wheel barrow full of rice seedlings for transplantation into a prepared rice paddy where they will remain until harvest, some 120 to 130 days later.
Women transplanting rice seedlings from a nursery to a prepared rice paddy where they will grow for 120 to 130 days, until harvest.
A woman farmer holding rice seedlings ready for transplantation into a prepared rice paddy where they will remain until harvest, some 120 to 130 days later.
A farmer transplanting rice seedlings (in bucket) from a nursery to a prepared rice paddy where they will remain until harvest, some 120 to 130 days later.
A bucket of rice seedlings from a nursery for transplantation into a prepared rice paddy where they will remain until harvest, some 120 to 130 days later.
A farmer 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.
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.
Farmer women drying rice in the sun in Ahero.
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.
A farmer woman drying rice in the sun outside her house in Ahero.
A farmer removing seedlings from a nursery to be transplanted into an operating rice paddy until harvest.
FAO Programme Officer Dr Paul Omanga standing in a rice field used soley to produce locally-grown seeds to cut down on costs. In the past, farmers recieved their seeds from Mwea, incurring high transp
Sacks of rice for sale in the private rice mill in Ahero, after having been processed.
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Oxen used to plough the rice paddies in preparation for planting new seedlings, resting on dry land.
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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