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AfDB supports small-scale irrigation in Kenya’s rural communities
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In its bid to bolster Africa’s ability to feed itself, the African Development Bank (AfDB) is targeting rural communities with interventions to improve yields, incomes and nutrition practices.
The project focuses on poverty reduction by enhancing agricultural productivity and income, and food security among beneficiaries.
The program is aligned with Kenya’s Medium Term Plan (MTP-II 2013-17) to modernize its agriculture as well as promote improved household welfare and increased income levels.
The project focuses on scaling up the country’s successful Small Scale Horticulture Development Project, which raised incomes to as high as US $18,000 per hectare.
); 20 marketable commodities grown; 11 agro-market centres constructed; 77 training on nutrition practices, gender sensitization and seed multiplications carried out; and 33 enterprises’ development training undertaken.
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