How to increase food production using less water is one of the greatest challenges of the future. Crops and livestock use 70 percent of all water withdrawals and up to 95 percent in some developing countries. Paddy alone consumes about 60 percent of it. By 2025, 1.8 billion people are projected to be living in […]
The Mwea-Tebere rice irrigation project is a child of the Mwca Development Scheme which had been started to restore land which had been eroded and degraded as a result of overstocking. It is situated about 70 miles northeagt of Nairobi in KirinyagOl district of the Central Province of Kenya. on the dry plains to the […]
Rice is a staple crop that has been grown in West Africa for more than 3500 years, since the domestication of African rice (Oryza glaberrima). Produced by low-income smallholders across the entire region, rice plays a key role in regional food security for rural and urban populations. In recent years, increasing demand stemming from population […]