Rank: Elder Joined: 6/23/2009 Posts: 14,321 Location: nairobi
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Jump-steady wrote:kawi254 wrote:limanika wrote:obiero wrote:hardwood wrote:nakujua wrote:I saw the cs on tv juzi at the site and he did not mention anything to do with the project stalling - I thinks it's a massive project and it's still early days, but whether we celebrate its failure or success - at the end of the day when through its a project that can be of great benefit to the country at large. Exactly. Why should we be importing sugar from sudan and rice plus oranges from Egypt grown via irrigation by waters of the nile? If they can utilise the nile, we can also utilise our tana and athi rivers. It's not rocket science. The chickens have come home to roost Dont know why we are still doing such projects in this time and age - with all the data available at click of a button. If govt grows enough maize to feed its people (they can't do this by the way), then farmers in rift will be out of business. So, if the project succeeds, we are doomed, if it fails we are damned. Fail-Fail situation. Instead they could have employed millions of jobless youths to build irrigation canals even using manual labour like the mwea scheme was done in the 50s and 60s. And then model it along mwea scheme which has been fairly successful - Maize they shouldn't plant -our farmers have been doing fantastic job and no need to fix it if it ain't broken. Think rice, sugar or COTTON. In March-May 2018 rains the floods in the Tana swallowed what was left of the investments  Who will help us? COOP, IMH, KEGN, KQ, MTNU
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