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The irony of rice fields drying up at an irrigation scheme

Farmers at village six in the Bura Irrigation scheme use jerricans to irrigate their rice farms in this picture

Photo credit: Stephen Oduor|Nation Media Group

What you need to know:

  • Acres of rice fields at Village Six are drying up due to inadequate water for irrigation, hence plunging farmers into massive losses.
  • In a single day, the farmer says he spends more than Sh2,000, as he pays the cart mover Sh100 for each of the 20 trips he makes for the water.

When farming close to a large water source, farmers expect that the biggest worry of water scarcity should be a thing of the past.

Unfortunately, this is not the case for a number of farmers at the Bura Irrigation Scheme in Tana River County, where their rice fields are drying up.