{"id":107279,"date":"2025-01-08T10:03:36","date_gmt":"2025-01-08T10:03:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/index.php\/2025\/01\/08\/government-will-build-more-dams-to-support-farming-in-north-rift-cs-mugaa\/"},"modified":"2025-01-08T10:03:36","modified_gmt":"2025-01-08T10:03:36","slug":"government-will-build-more-dams-to-support-farming-in-north-rift-cs-mugaa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/government-will-build-more-dams-to-support-farming-in-north-rift-cs-mugaa\/","title":{"rendered":"Government will build more dams to support farming in North Rift, CS Mugaa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Government will build more dams to support farming in the North Rift.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Water Cabinet Secretary Eric Mugaa said the region\u2019s agriculture potential is yet to be fully exploited due to water shortages.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are addressing this problem by building more dams that will increase the land acreage from the current 6,000 to 9,000,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>He spoke on Wednesday when he inspected water projects in Uasin Gishu County.<\/p>\n<p>President William Ruto is expected to launch a number of development projects in the region from Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The Water CS said a shift from reliance on rain-fed agriculture will make Kenya more food secure, create more employment and drive the country\u2019s economic growth.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/kbc.co.ke\/government-will-build-more-dams-to-support-farming-in-north-rift-cs-mugaa\/\">Government will build more dams to support farming in North Rift, CS Mugaa<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/kbc.co.ke\/\">KBC<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Government will build more dams to support farming in the North Rift. Water Cabinet Secretary Eric Mugaa said the region\u2019s agriculture potential is yet to be fully exploited due to water shortages. \u201cWe are addressing this problem by building more dams that will increase the land acreage from the current 6,000 to 9,000,\u201d he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107279\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}