{"id":6636,"date":"2019-11-18T10:48:01","date_gmt":"2019-11-18T07:48:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=6636"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:41","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:41","slug":"rwanda-looks-to-japan-for-sustainable-irrigation-schemes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/11\/18\/rwanda-looks-to-japan-for-sustainable-irrigation-schemes\/","title":{"rendered":"Rwanda Looks To Japan For Sustainable Irrigation Schemes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>By&nbsp;Emmanuel Ntirenganya<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As Rwanda scales up efforts\nto increase irrigated farmland, it is seeking to learn from the Japanese on\nbuilding effective and sustainable irrigation schemes, the Director-General of\nRwanda Agriculture Board (RAB) has said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr Patrick Karangwa was\nspeaking on Friday, November 15, 2019, in Kigali during the second meeting of\nthe Joint Coordinating Committee (JCC), a project for Water Management and\nCapacity Building in Rwanda.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The project is supported by\nJapan International Cooperation Agency (JICA).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Karangwa said that sometimes\nimportant irrigation schemes are being set up in districts, but after some time\n<\/p>\n\n\n<p>[about two years]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> their yield starts diminishing owing to the lack of proper\nmaintenance or management.\n\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The project, which was\nlaunched in April 2019, seeks to improve the capacity of irrigation scheme\nmanagement in the model sites in three districts of Ngoma, Rwamagana and\nGisagara.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The practices will be rolled\nout in other parts of the country, he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Although operation and maintenance of the developed irrigation schemes are expected to be transferred from the government to farmers\u2019 cooperatives, the project developers argue that they lack capacities such as know-how and financial means to manage them effectively.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Agriculture production in Rwanda heavily depends on rainfall with only 3 per cent of arable land under irrigation, which poses a threat to sustainable farming practices\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newtimes.co.rw\/news\/rwanda-looks-japan-sustainable-irrigation-schemes\">Read more>><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By&nbsp;Emmanuel Ntirenganya As Rwanda scales up efforts to increase irrigated farmland, it is seeking to learn from the Japanese on building effective and sustainable irrigation schemes, the Director-General of Rwanda&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6637,"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-6636","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\/6636","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=6636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6636\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}