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Department of Irrigation
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The purpose of the department is to contribute to sustainable national economic growth and development through enhanced irrigated agriculture production and productivity. The Department promotes irrigated agriculture production and productivity for local and export use using irrigation technologies that take into account climate change ;improved national and household incomes, food and nutritional security; improved irrigation service delivery; increased employment opportunities; enhanced land and water productivity through sustainable land tenure arrangements, catchment management and water harvesting
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The achievements will be attained through increased land under sustainable irrigation farming, crop diversification and intensification; an enabling environment for irrigated agriculture; optimizing investment in irrigation development taking into account climate change; enhancing capacity for irrigated agriculture; and promoting a business culture in the small-scale irrigated agriculture sector
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Launch of National Irrigation Master Plan & Investment Framework; 25th June, 2015
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