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Why Bura farmers are ditching maize for rice

Bura Irrigation Scheme Agronomist Job Umanga inspects rice harvest at the Bura Irrigation Scheme.
 

Photo credit: Stephen Oduor | Nation Media Group

Farmers at the Bura irrigation scheme are increasingly abandoning maize to venture into the more lucrative rice farming.

At least 90 farmers have joined rice farming owing to the minimal costs of production, a ready market and convenient payments.