Irrigation farming has been touted as one of the basic
ingredients to improved agriculture in the country. The country
has learnt from painful experience that irrigation pays higher
dividends compared to the traditional approach of relying on
rains, which are themselves becoming more unreliable due to the
sweeping climate change as man tampers more and more with the
ecosystem. While irrigation farming is not new in the country,
having been in practice for a long time, using traditional
methods of digging canals to get water to farms, it is sad that
the system and its infrastructure has in some places been left
to die. There is a widespread cry of shortage of water in
various places, but it is also true that the reduced amounts of
water can still deliver a lot through use of such efficient
methods as drip irrigation. Yet there is a possibility according
to experts to revive the infrastructure, modify it to fit a more
efficient distribution for greater benefit to the people. While
for example in Kilimanjaro, a