Counties benefit from Sh6.8b project to boost food security

Agriculture Principal Secretary Richard Lesiyampe (right) chats with Council of Governors Chairman Peter Munya and Makueni Governor Kivutha Kibwana during the signing of an irrigation project. [Dennis Okeyo, Standard]

Eleven counties are set to benefit from a Sh6.8 billion agricultural project to improve food security in the country through irrigation.

The six-year Small Scale Irrigation and Value Addition Project (SIVAP), which was supposed to kick off last November but delayed, will be funded through a loan from the African Development Bank (Sh3.8 billion), the Government’s Sh690 million while the Global Agricultural and Food Security Programme will pump in Sh2.3 billion.