9 BENEFITS OF THE MWEA TEBERE IRRIGATION SCHEME IN KENYA
Source of food especially rice for human consumption. Provided employment opportunities to the farmers hence improving their standards of living. The project has helped to re-settle people who were formally landless. The project has led to improvement in the infrastructure e.g. roads which has improved transport in the area. Flooding of the rivers has been controlled hence improving the safety of lives of the people around. It’s a source of government revenue through taxes used to develop infrastructures e.g. roads. It has led to improvement in research hence resulting into high crop yielding varieties. The project led to effective utilization of the land which could have remained idle hence reducing resource wastage. It has led to development of processing industries which have led to urbanisation e.g. the rice mill at Mwea-Tebere. Infrastructural development has led to urbanisation e.g. Thiba and Embu towns. It has led to large scale output hence encouraging exports leading to...