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State woos investors with 21-year renewable leases for Bura sugarcane farming
An aerial view of the trenches dug by the National Irrigation Authority to prevent livestock from accessing farms under production at the Bura Irrigation Scheme in Tana River County.
The State has dangled 21-year renewable leases as it races to woo investors to take up 25,000 acres of land within the Bura Irrigation Scheme for commercial sugarcane production, as part of a wider strategy to generate revenue from idle public assets.
The Bura scheme has a total of 296,000 acres, of which 12,000 acres have been developed, and 6,000 acres are actively under production for rice and maize.
