Failure of Galana-Kulalu Irrigation Scheme

[Arcadian_Dreamer]

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The Galana-Kulalu Irrigation Scheme once held the hopes of plugging the country’s food deficit but right now, the project is unlikely to realize the envisioned target.

[Arcadian_Dreamer]

[Arcadian_Dreamer]

Do you believe the project was conceived with national food security objective in mind or the usual schemes aimed at grabbing land? News sources already reporting a huge chunk of land size of Kisii has been grabbed by individuals. Would it not be be more appropriate to concentrate on places that have enough rains, fertile soils for a project of this sort, instead of spending billions on a semi desert? Galana Kulalu was originally a ranch, it should have stayed so. 

[patel]

Uhuruto everything they touch turns to dust. Bure kabisa

[Arcadian_Dreamer]

Uhuruto everything they touch turns to dust. Bure kabisa

Bwana patel, Uhuruto is trying to rebrand himself as some sort of champion for the small man, sa

"...Deputy President William Ruto has brought on board former CBK Governor Prof. Njuguna Ndung'u to help him craft the Hustler Strategy ahead of the 2022 general election."

David Ndii is also part of his camp.

It is the same wheel spinning over and over it seems in this country. Nothing changes.

[RV Pundit]

I think entire coast is ripe for irrigation - they have the right climate - just need water - and we have water flowing from Mt Kenya - Kilimanjaro and Taita hills - flowing down - through Tana river, Athi River and Galana.

There is small scope for irrigation in the swamps of Luo Nyanza and Westerns - for rice irrigation - but coast provides us with huge land and many more options for all types of crops.

Do you believe the project was conceived with national food security objective in mind or the usual schemes aimed at grabbing land? News sources already reporting a huge chunk of land size of Kisii has been grabbed by individuals. Would it not be be more appropriate to concentrate on places that have enough rains, fertile soils for a project of this sort, instead of spending billions on a semi desert? Galana Kulalu was originally a ranch, it should have stayed so. 

[Arcadian_Dreamer]

I think entire coast is ripe for irrigation - they have the right climate - just need water - and we have water flowing from Mt Kenya - Kilimanjaro and Taita hills - flowing down - through Tana river, Athi River and Galana.

There is small scope for irrigation in the swamps of Luo Nyanza and Westerns - for rice irrigation - but coast provides us with huge land and many more options for all types of crops.

Irrigation if it is to be done should be undertaken by private individuals or county governments assisting local communities, the central government getting involved usual means community land being grabbed by outsiders exactly what is happening in Galana. 

Irrigation has long term consequences it should be avoided.

Salty soil increased as irrigation spread across the golden state of California:  “Every new irrigated field raised the local groundwater table a little more.  Each summer, evaporation pumped more salt up into the soil.”  The salt in California’s Central Valley was not “seawater salt” but salt in the soil which weathered out of rocks, dissolving in soil water, and then reprecipatating where the water evaporated.

Mr. Montgomery, in an earlier section of his book, describes how pre-Biblical Mesopotamia, with its estimated peak population of 20 million, collapsed from the lack of food to feed its people, which resulted from the build-up of salt in its agricultural land from the “sustained irrigation” which generated “enough salt to eventually poison crops.”

[RV Pundit]

Raila kicked out the Canadian in Siaya who had transformed that backwater - Dominon Farms. Ugandans do better in rice irrigation. I see small farms all over by people. They are not waiting for gov. But well they have more swamps...entire country is big swamp like South Sudan.

I think entire coast is ripe for irrigation - they have the right climate - just need water - and we have water flowing from Mt Kenya - Kilimanjaro and Taita hills - flowing down - through Tana river, Athi River and Galana.

There is small scope for irrigation in the swamps of Luo Nyanza and Westerns - for rice irrigation - but coast provides us with huge land and many more options for all types of crops.

Irrigation if it is to be done should be undertaken by private individuals or county governments assisting local communities, the central government getting involved usual means community land being grabbed by outsiders exactly what is happening in Galana. 

Irrigation has long term consequences it should be avoided.

Salty soil increased as irrigation spread across the golden state of California:  “Every new irrigated field raised the local groundwater table a little more.  Each summer, evaporation pumped more salt up into the soil.”  The salt in California’s Central Valley was not “seawater salt” but salt in the soil which weathered out of rocks, dissolving in soil water, and then reprecipatating where the water evaporated.

Mr. Montgomery, in an earlier section of his book, describes how pre-Biblical Mesopotamia, with its estimated peak population of 20 million, collapsed from the lack of food to feed its people, which resulted from the build-up of salt in its agricultural land from the “sustained irrigation” which generated “enough salt to eventually poison crops.”