{"id":38840,"date":"2019-02-08T12:30:00","date_gmt":"2019-02-08T12:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/rwf16-billion-irrigation-project-inaugurated-in\/"},"modified":"2019-02-08T14:10:03","modified_gmt":"2019-02-08T14:10:03","slug":"rwf16-billion-irrigation-project-inaugurated-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/rwf16-billion-irrigation-project-inaugurated-in\/","title":{"rendered":"Rwf16 billion irrigation project inaugurated in Rwamagana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cyaruhogo Wetland occupies 170 ha of land area where three rice farmers\u2019 cooperatives composed of 600 members grow rice. <\/p>\n<p>During the project implementation, two dams and a 23.5-kilometer water pipe will be built to water rice fields in the wetland.<\/p>\n<p>The Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Agriculture, Jean Claude Musabyimana urged the residents to preserve the irrigation facilities and take advantage of the jobs to be created during the construction of the facilities.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis irrigation project is expected to create many jobs for the population living near the wetland.  You should take advantage of this opportunity and develop yourselves economically. We urge you to preserve the dams to be built for the future benefit for all of us,\u201d Musabyimana said.<\/p>\n<p>Musabyimana further explained that the Rwandan Government plans, as reflected in the 7-year Government Program, to boost agriculture production by increasing the land area irrigated, done in partnership with different partners including the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) which sponsored the project.<\/p>\n<p>The Japan Ambassador to Rwanda, Takayuki Miyashita said Japan is ready to continue working with Rwanda in different projects aimed at improving Rwandans social welfare, agriculture and boosting agribusiness. <\/p>\n<p>Under the 7-year Government Program, it is projected that the irrigated land for agriculture will increase from 48.508 ha in 2016\/17 to 102.284 ha in 2024.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-28126 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/iki_gishanga_gisanzwe_gihingwamo_umuceri_byitezwe_ko_kizeramo_toni_5-b5156-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ministry of Agriculture in partnership with the Japan International Corporation Agency (JICA) has on Thursday inaugurated a Project for Rehabilitation of Irrigation Facilities, worth RWF16 billion, expected to raise rice production up from 3.5 tonnes to five tonnes per hectare at Cyaruhogo Wetland in Rwamagana District. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-38840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","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":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","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":8}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38840","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38840\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38840"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=38840"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=38840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}