TARDA’s Strategies to Deliver on Food Security Agenda

The Focus on Food security is:

• Production of food crops particularly: Maize, beans, millet, sorghum, nutritional crops e.g. green grams and horticultural crops.
• Promotion of value added orchards (tree crops) – Hass avocado, citrus
• Livestock development and caged fish farming (in Masinga and Kiambere dams)
• Promotion of environmental conservation programme for sustainability of food security agenda.
• Creation of jobs for the local communities (particularly the youth and women).
• Economic empowerment through Income generation

TARDA is endowed with resources such as Land, Water and human capital.

• Land resources:
  1. Masinga Buffer zone 7,500 acres (3,000Ha) of land suitable and available in Phase I
  2. Kiambere buffer zone with 12,500 acres (5,000Ha) available in Phase I
  3. Tana Delta (31,000Ha) Rice farming
• • • Phase I (for rehabilitation) 5,000 acres (2,000 Ha)
    • Phase II (for expansion)              25,000 acres (10,000Ha)
    • Sugarcane farming 40,000 acres (16,000Ha)
    • Integrated Solar farming 1,500 acres (600 Ha)
    • Environmental conservation and Livestock corridors 5,750 acres (2,300Ha)
• Masinga and Kiambere Reservoirs – Blue economy enhancement through caged fish farming
• Human capital