{"id":4846,"date":"2019-08-23T10:00:19","date_gmt":"2019-08-23T07:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=4846"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:29","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:29","slug":"parliament-gives-galana-kulalu-the-green-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/08\/23\/parliament-gives-galana-kulalu-the-green-light\/","title":{"rendered":"Parliament Gives Galana Kulalu The Green Light"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>By Business Daily<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The parliamentary committee on Agriculture has given the green light to the one million acres Galana Kulalu irrigation scheme, an approval that comes as a relief to the National Irrigation Board (NIB) that has over the years been at pains to defend the project\u2019s viability.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The chairperson of the committee, Ali Adan Haji, said from what the committee had seen at the 10,000 acre pilot farm, the project is viable and can play a major role in boosting food security in the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cA lot has been said about Galana with negative\npublicity. However, from what we have seen, I can confidently say that as a\ncommittee, we shall fully support this project in the next phase,\u201d said Mr\nHaji.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The legislator also asked Kenyans to give the project time before starting to query its value for money, \u201cgiven it&#8217;s capital- intensive nature\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Recently, Israeli contractor Green Arava pulled out of\nthe project, citing non-payment, a claim that NIB has refuted. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessdailyafrica.com\/news\/counties\/Parliament-gives-Galana-Kulalu-the-green-light\/4003142-5242896-aveuax\/index.html\">Read\nmore&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Business Daily The parliamentary committee on Agriculture has given the green light to the one million acres Galana Kulalu irrigation scheme, an approval that comes as a relief to&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4847,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4846\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}