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Explain four significance of irrigation farming in Kenya

      

Explain four significance of irrigation farming in Kenya

  

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-Many people have been employed in the farms and other sectors within the irrigation schemes
hence improving standards of living/alleviating unemployment.
-The reclaimed land has led to increased food production.
-Crops grown through irrigation are exported to earn foreign exchange which can be used in other
sectors.
-Irrigation has facilitated development of roads to help in transportation of inputs and products
from farms.
-Social amenities such as schools and hospitals have been constructed.
-Industries that use the raw materials produced in the irrigation schemes have been developed.

Give any five ways in which irrigation farming is significant in Kenya.

(a) Irrigation farming has enabled farmers to earn an income thus improving their standards of living.
(b) Thousands of people have been offered employment opportunities in this sector in the farms or in the transport and trade of rice.
(c) Irrigation scheme have created settlements for thousands of people who would otherwise be landless.
(d) Irrigation farming has facilitated reclamation of unproductive land thus increasing the farming land and curbing desertification
(e) Some crops grown through irrigation are exported to other countries thus earning foreign exchange
monica20 answered the question on November 4, 2017 at 08:00


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