SRI Farmers Now Turned into Trainers in Kenya!
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Drawing from the encouragement of Prof. Norman Uphoff to start SRI in Kenya, the first meeting to plan and introduce SRI was held at the Mwea Irrigation Scheme in July 2009, organized by Prof. Bancy Mati of JKUAT and Markus Moeller (then the Irrigation Specialist at the World Bank office in Kenya). The two drew together some like-minded individuals to form a collaborative team comprised of staff of Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (JKUAT), the National Irrigation Board (NIB) through its Mwea Irrigation Scheme and the Mwea Irrigation Agricultural Development Centre (MIAD), the African Institute for Capacity and Development (AICAD), IMAWESA (then a network of ICRISAT funded by IFAD), the Ministry of Water and Irrigation (MWI),the Ministry of Agriculture (MoA), private consultants, the World Bank office in Nairobi, the World Bank Institute (WBI) in Washington DC, the Central Kenya Dry Areas Project, Cornell University in USA, and farmers from the Mwea Irrigation Scheme.
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