Feature - Solar boreholes, irrigated crops throw lifeline to Kenyan herders
by Anthony Lang'at

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22 March 2017

On 22 March 2017 Thomson Reuters Foundation reported: At the only borehole with water for miles around, the troughs are under siege in Saretho village as hundreds of camels, cattle, sheep, and goats await their turn. On the other side of the solar-powered well, women and children fetch water for household use ... Two years ago, the scene would have been different. Without the solar-powered pump they have now, the villagers found the local boreholes difficult and costly to operate. But since the Kenya Red Cross installed a solar system in 2014, they no longer have problems getting water. Elsewhere in the county, a group of former pastoralists have taken to growing fruit and vegetables. Its chairman Mathar Shale said he hasn't kept livestock since he started planting bananas, tomatoes, and cabbages. 'I can earn 70,000 shillings ($680) in a good month,' he said. Global Good News service views this news as a sign of rising positivity in the field of science, documenting the growth of life-supporting, evolutionary trends.

Shale is one of 40 farmers working a 20-acre plot set up as a farm by the Kenya Red Cross in Garissa's Balambala constituency in 2014. ... The Red Cross installed a pump to bring water from the river to the farm, where it is distributed to crops via furrows dug in the earth.

In the past, Shale would lose his livestock to drought and had nothing to fall back on. But nowadays, even without animals, he can feed his family. ... projects like those of the Red Cross would go a long way in addressing the scourge of drought in the long term, [said County Governor Nathif Jama Adam].

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