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Galana project provides starving Kenyans with 62,000 bags of maize

A section of the Galana-Kulalu scheme when it had crop in the fields. PHOTO: FILE

Drought-stricken residents of Tana-River and Kilifi counties on Friday received 62,000 bags of maize harvested from the Galana-Kulalu Irrigation Project.

In what is seen as the Government’s effort to demonstrate viability of the project, Water and Irrigation Cabinet Secretary Eugene Wamalwa and his counterpart for Devolution and Special Programmes Mwangi Kiunjuri flagged off two trucks carrying the maize to Ganze in Kilifi County.

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