Agriculture CECM Anne Nyaga (holding flag) flags off the NARIGP roadshow truck at the Department headquarters in Embu. PHOTO: Martin Fundi |
EMBU: Sh80 Million Grants for NARIGP Project
The project lies under the Embu County government's ministry of
agriculture.
County Executive Committee Member for Agriculture, Anne Nyaga
said that the project will benefit farmer groups in 20 wards across the
county.
While addressing the media, Nyaga revealed that more than 50
percent of the targeted groups had already applied for the Agricultural
grant.
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The CECM speaks at the event venue |
The agriculture minister said that the project encourages and
sensitizes youth to take up agribusiness.
Further, speaking in the same event, County Executive Committee
Member for Water, Richard Mbogo called on residents to find ways of harvesting
rain water for Agricultural use.
“There cannot be agriculture without water, the government has
constructed water pans so that we can be able to harvest rain water for
irrigation and other domestic use," said Mbogo.
Young dancers hired for publicity of dramatize the gains of agribusiness through dance, before the flag off. |
NARIGP is a World Bank-funded program that has been rolled out
in 20 other counties in the country.
The Project Development Objective is to increase agriculture
productivity and profitability in the region as a way of averting future cases
of drought and hunger.
Earlier this year Governor Martin Wambora launched a Youth in
Agribusiness Strategy through the county's ministry of agriculture.
Speaking during the launch that happened in February 2019,
agriculture CEC Anne Nyaga said that the strategy focused on four value
chains.
"The four value chains are dairy cows, indigenous chicken,
green grams and mangoes," she said.
(Edited
by Martin Fundi)
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