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Kenya presses on with Galana as hunger bites

KILIFI-GALANA KALALU FARM;maizecrops under irrigation at the Galana kalalu farm in Kilifi County.PHOTO BY PHILIP MWAKIO/STANDARD

Hopes of a food-secure country may be in sight, but not soon enough to help about 1.3 million starving Kenyans.

The Galana-Kulalu food security project is currently 70 per cent complete. The pilot phase has a target to put 10,000 acres of land under maize by the end of March next year, according to Site Chief Engineer Henry Ochiere.

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