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Sh5b irrigation project brings hope to once hardship hamlet

Project manager Naslene Ogwe inspects progress at Lower Kuja Scheme on June 15, 2020. [Caleb Kingwara, Standard]

From whichever direction you approach it, the rice fields are spread as far as the eye can see.

Just five years ago, this was just a grazing field where thousands of livestock browsed and reptiles crawled.

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