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Magic water turning hostile Turkana into food basket

Magic water turning hostile Turkana into food basket
A Turkana woman tastes water which was installed by Ministry of Water and National resources at Napuu area of Turkana Central.

For the past two years, Pauline Longiro has not experienced food shortage following a bumper harvest from her maize farm on the shores of River Turkwel in Turkana County.

Like other women, who had suffered drought for long, the 42-year-old mother of seven, has been irrigating her farm on the shores of the river. And she could soon be increasing her maize production from 10 to 30 bags following Government plans to increase land under irrigation to more than 200,000 hectares in her Napuu village

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