{"id":22681,"date":"2016-01-21T23:13:37","date_gmt":"2016-01-21T23:13:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/ngoma-japan-launches-a-project-of-watering-300\/"},"modified":"2016-02-12T13:02:14","modified_gmt":"2016-02-12T13:02:14","slug":"ngoma-japan-launches-a-project-of-watering-300","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/ngoma-japan-launches-a-project-of-watering-300\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan supports Rwanda\u2019s drive to improve agricultural productivity through irrigation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{The Japanese government has launched a project of digging a 14.9 meter-high dam which is expected to provide water for irrigating 300 hectares in Rugenge and Remera sectors, Ngoma district.}<\/p>\n<p>The project to cost Rwf 9.5 billion will facilitate farmers, through irrigation, to increase production in both marshlands and upland farming. <\/p>\n<p>Irrigation will be carried out on 265hactares of upland farms growing, mainly, fruits and vegetables while 35 hectares in marshland will be for rice growing.<\/p>\n<p>The Minister of state for agriculture, Tony Nsanganira, who visted the site yesterday, said that the project will boost agricultural productivity especially fruits and vegetables. <\/p>\n<p>A representative of the Japanese embassy in Rwanda, Tomio Sakamoto, said that the project is one among projects his country is supporting in addition to education and technology. <\/p>\n<p>Ngoma Irrigation Project has two main components; the Irrigation infrastructure that includes the dam whose height measures to 14.9m with a capacity of 960,000m3 plus 3 regulation tanks, two irrigation canals  with the main having 28km and the second with 27 km.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-10277 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/dam.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{The Japanese government has launched a project of digging a 14.9 meter-high dam which is expected to provide water for irrigating 300 hectares in Rugenge and Remera sectors, Ngoma district.} The project to cost Rwf 9.5 billion will facilitate farmers, through irrigation, to increase production in both marshlands and upland farming. Irrigation will be carried [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2000071654,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[75],"byline":[160],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-22681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economy","tag-homenews","byline-theophile-niyitegeka"],"bylines":[{"id":160,"name":"Th\u00e9ophile Niyitegeka","slug":"theophile-niyitegeka","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":3}],"contributors":[{"id":160,"name":"Th\u00e9ophile Niyitegeka","slug":"theophile-niyitegeka","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":3}],"featured_image":{"id":2000071654,"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton22681.jpg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton22681.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton22681.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton22681.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton22681.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton22681.jpg","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22681\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000071654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22681"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=22681"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=22681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}