New rice irrigation project changes fortunes of farmers

A rice nursery in Gakonya village in Kiharu, Murang’a where farmers have transformed the former swampy area into rice fields using irrigation water fetched from Rutune river. [Boniface Gikandi, Standard]

A newly established rice irrigation project has brought a smile to farmers in semi-arid Gaturi ward in Kiharu, Murang’a County. 

Thanks to the project started five years ago, the formerly poverty-stricken area in Murang’a has been transformed into a potential food basket.