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:
- Masinga Buffer zone 7,500 acres (3,000Ha) of land suitable and available in Phase I
- Kiambere buffer zone with 12,500 acres (5,000Ha) available in Phase I
- Tana Delta (31,000Ha) Rice farming
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- 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)
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- Masinga and Kiambere Reservoirs – Blue economy enhancement through caged fish farming
- Human capital