His Excellency the Siaya County Governor James Orengo has met with one of the Cabinet Secretaries serving the Kenya Kwanza administration.
The Orange Democratic Movement ODM party elected governor has noted that he met with the Cabinet Secretary in charge of the Ministry of Agriculture CS Mithika Linturi at his Kilimo House in Nairobi on Tuesday afternoon.
The meeting bore good fruits since the national government has since said that they will be injecting Sh 4 billion towards rice production which will greatly benefit the counties.
"Held a meeting with senior staff of the Ministry of Agriculture led by Cabinet Secretary Mithika Linturi in Nairobi where the national government announced a Shs 4 billion rice production programme with Siaya earmarked among the counties to benefit from it."His Excellency governor James Orengo.
This comes days after His Excellency the Head of State president William Ruto announced that the government will put an extra 200,000 acres across all the ten rice growing counties under irrigation to boost rice production.
He said this will help minimise rice importation, enhance food security and help increase profitability for farmers.
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