The Galana Kulalu project.[Photo/Standard]The government has announced plans to partner with top universities in the country as Israeli firm contracted to implement phase one of the Galana irrigation scheme project exit in March 2018.
Water and Irrigation Cabinet Secretary Eugene Wamalwa who announced plans to privatize 20,000 acres of the project said that they will now engage universities in the take-over.
“New players are expected to take over this project and by March we want the National Irrigation Board to hand over to the Agricultural Development Corporation as the contract comes to an end,” he said.
Wamalwa announced that experts from University of Nairobi, the Jomo Kenyatta University of Science and Technology, Moi University as well as Egerton University will bring in an array of technical expertise to support the Galana project.
“I think that it is time we start utilizing local expertise in implementing food security projects across the country,” he said.
He expressed optimism in the realization of the project which was launched by President Uhuru Kenyatta in 2014 and is one of the projects under the Food Security focus area in the President’s Big Four Plan for economic development.