{"id":12006,"date":"2023-12-13T15:45:54","date_gmt":"2023-12-13T15:45:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ricenewstoday.com\/?p=12006"},"modified":"2023-12-13T15:46:43","modified_gmt":"2023-12-13T15:46:43","slug":"kisumu-farmers-count-losses-as-rains-destroy-rice-fields","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ricenewstoday.com\/dev\/kisumu-farmers-count-losses-as-rains-destroy-rice-fields\/","title":{"rendered":"Kisumu Farmers Count Losses As Rains Destroy Rice Fields"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/ricenewstoday.com\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/floods-og_image-1024x576.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12007\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ricenewstoday.com\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/floods-og_image-1024x576.webp 1024w, https:\/\/ricenewstoday.com\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/floods-og_image-600x338.webp 600w, https:\/\/ricenewstoday.com\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/floods-og_image-300x169.webp 300w, https:\/\/ricenewstoday.com\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/floods-og_image-768x432.webp 768w, https:\/\/ricenewstoday.com\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/floods-og_image.webp 1120w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Rice farmers&nbsp;at&nbsp;West Kano Irrigation Scheme are staring at&nbsp;losses&nbsp;as&nbsp;floods continue to wreak havoc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Scheme chairman Jared Odoyo said&nbsp;rice&nbsp;on&nbsp;the 650-acre&nbsp;piece of land is wasting away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said many\u00a0farmers took loans develop their farms, but are now staring at losses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cFarmers are at&nbsp;a&nbsp;crossroads since they must repay the loans and with schools opening next year, it is going to be a disaster,\u201d&nbsp;Odoyo&nbsp;said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He&nbsp;said&nbsp;the bumper harvest&nbsp;farmers&nbsp;had hoped to get in January next year is now a&nbsp;distant dream.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Odoyo&nbsp;also raised concerns about the&nbsp;outlet pump&nbsp;that he said has&nbsp;failed to cope&nbsp;with&nbsp;the magnitude of water, and&nbsp;appealed to both the county and national governments to assist farmers&nbsp;to acquire&nbsp;a new pump.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe outlet pump has been a problem&nbsp;for&nbsp;the farmers for two decades,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rice farmers&nbsp;at&nbsp;West Kano Irrigation Scheme are staring at&nbsp;losses&nbsp;as&nbsp;floods continue to wreak havoc. Scheme chairman Jared Odoyo said&nbsp;rice&nbsp;on&nbsp;the 650-acre&nbsp;piece of land is wasting away. He said many\u00a0farmers took loans develop their farms, but are now staring at losses. \u201cFarmers are at&nbsp;a&nbsp;crossroads since they must repay the loans and with schools opening next year, it is going [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12007,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[313,218],"class_list":["post-12006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-farmers-place","tag-rice-farmers","tag-rice-farming"],"acf":{"enable_premium_overlay":false},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Kisumu Farmers Count Losses As Rains Destroy Rice Fields - Rice News Today<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Kisumu Farmers Count Losses As Rains Destroy Rice Fields - Rice News Today\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Rice farmers&nbsp;at&nbsp;West Kano Irrigation Scheme are staring at&nbsp;losses&nbsp;as&nbsp;floods continue to wreak havoc. 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