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Partial Root-Zone Drying irrigation enables potato farmers halve water usage

Small-scale potato farmers using furrow irrigation can make use of little water to bring more acreage under cultivation by applying the partial irrigation method. Partial Root-Zone Drying method, which can save between 30 per cent and 50 per cent of the total water used in an acre, relies on the alternate supply of the commodity […]

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This dry season: Nyamira farmer teaming with colleagues to make good use of water sources

  Furrow irrigation system set to pump water to channels and basins for irrigating the farm before planting begins. A farmer in Nyamira County is collaborating with colleagues near water sources, one near Sondu River and another near a stream in Magwagwa Location to ease tomato production through drip and furrow irrigation systems during dry

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