Sh16b for irrigation and fighting fall armyworm

Isabel Diana, a trader at Jubilee market in Kisumu sorts out water melons at her stall on June 14,2018. Small scale traders in the market hope life will be better to them in the starting financial year. (Denish Ochieng/ Standard)

?The Government has allocated more than Sh16.4 billion to the agricultural sector to improve the productivity of small-scale farmers and cushion the sector against climatic shocks.

In the spending plan for the 2018-19 financial year presented in Parliament Thursday, Treasury allocated Sh25 billion to the agricultural sector with key focus on irrigation and crop insurance for small-holder farmers.