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No more hunger: Sh40m irrigation project changes many lives

Thika MP Patrick Wainaina (second right) with an arrowroot farmer in Ngoliba in Thika East. The MP revived a stall irrigation project in the area. [Kamau Maichuhie, Standard]

Residents of Thika Town Constituency have been urged to embrace irrigation farming after a stalled project was revived a few months ago.

Area MP Patrick Wainaina said Ndula-Magogoni-Ngoliba Irrigation Scheme will help alleviate perennial hunger.

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