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Government to drill boreholes for miraa farmers, but rows rage

The national government has started drilling boreholes and earth-dams in order to spur irrigation in Embu, Meru and Tharaka Nithi counties.

The irrigation efforts are particularly targeted at improving miraa (khat) farming in those counties.

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