Although significant investment in irrigation requires increased production of high-value crops, most farmers in the four pilot sites have grown a variety of staple and subsistence crops with very limited experience of cash crops, thus they need to be trained of growing new cash crops and marketing them. Application of effective natural resource management is also essential, including soil and water conservation and agroforestry practices, while farmers are often not sufficiently sensitized on the needs and affordable technologies. Not only the choice of crops and natural resource management protocols but also designing of irrigation schemes require careful planning and relevant provisions for capacity building based on current socioeconomic profiles of households
Publication year
2010
Authors
Iiyama M; Mogoi J B; Nabale C; Kipruto C; Mowo G J; Gachene, C.K.K.; Oduor A R; Maimbo M M; Muthuri, C.W.
Language
English
Keywords
irrigation, natural resources management, conservation, land economics, pilot projects, socioeconomic systems, sustainable development
Geographic
Rwanda
