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A farmer harvests plump, leafy cabbages ready for sale in Banisa. Sugarcane farming has great potential.
Others include detailed designs of irrigation IGAD-FAO Partnership Programme on
infrastructure including intake works, pump Drought Resilience
house, rising main, storage tanks, distribution The partnership plan addresses nutrition and
systems, scheme layout, infield systems and food security by encouraging poor household
access roads. Implementation plan is ready farmers to increase food production through
together with the project cost-benefit analysis support in irrigation and rain-fed dryland farm-
ing along the arid and semi-arid areas on the
The feasibility study for Kotulo (Malbe) 200,000m3 Ethiopia-Kenya-Somalia border along River
irrigation waterpan project is ready. The pro- Daua basin.
gramme is being conducted 279km south-west • Diesel-powered pump sets ideal for farm
of Mandera and can be accessed through irrigation - three and two irrigation pumps
Rhamu. The proposed gross area is 513 hac- issued to BP1 and Khalalio farmers
tares, while net irrigable land is 405 hectares. • Construction of two pump houses complet-
The feasibility study of water storage structure/ ed at Khalalio (Isra and Awkey).
reservoir (waterpan) in the project area where • Certified crop seeds - five kilogrammes of
feasible and a detailed toposurvey and profile crop seeds to each of the three communities -
survey-detail designs of irrigation infrastruc- BP1, Khalalio and Girissa
ture include diversion weir, waterpan, draw-off • Fodder and pasture seeds consisting of
system, water reservoir or storage tanks, dis- 250kg grass seeds distributed among the five
tribution system, scheme/farm layout, infield communities - BP1, Khalalio,Girissa,Elgolicha
system and access roads have already been and Lafey.
finalised. • Farmers trained on fodder production,
storage and conservation - five communities
The county has also conducted geotechni- trained on crop husbandry HOW AbOUT THIS? bounty from the
cal analysis and soil sampling, environmental • Provision of farm tools and equipment - fruits of investment in modern agricultural
and social impact assessment, preparation of each 50 pieces of ox-plough, plain jembe, methods as a farmer proudly hoists a bunch
technical design report with design drawing, fork jembe, wheelbarrows and spades. of healthy bananas from his farm.
BOQ and tender document, implementation •Two shallow wells rehabilitated at Elgolicha.
plan and project cost benefit analysis.