Kenya Investment Authority has been advertising the opportunity for manufacture of fertilizer <a href="http://www.investmentkenya.com/opportunities/manufacturing">http://www.investmentkenya.com/opportunities/manufacturing</a><div>
<br></div><div>I hope they are aware of this opportunity to kill two birds with one stone.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 8:37 PM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bitange@jambo.co.ke" target="_blank">bitange@jambo.co.ke</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Listers,<br>
I very much know that my post today is not directly ICT but its<br>
implications have a great bearing on the decisions we make about our<br>
future development in ICT.<br>
<br>
Page 19 of the Star of Thursday, October 11th, carried a story on Water<br>
Hyacinth titled “Water hyacinth project threatened by court order”. This<br>
is apparently a donor funded project in its phase two under Lake Victoria<br>
Environmental Management Project (LVEMP).<br>
<br>
LVEMP II is an eight-year US$254 million (Ksh. 2.1 billion) old regional<br>
project being implemented in the five East African Community partner<br>
states says the article. Objectives of the project include: improving<br>
“collaborative management of trans-boundary natural resources of Lake<br>
Victoria basin” as well as “reduce environmental stress in the targeted<br>
pollution hotspots and selected degraded sub-catchment areas as a way of<br>
improving the livelihoods of communities who depend on the lake basin’s<br>
resources”.<br>
<br>
One will hope that the project is supposed to physically remove water<br>
hyacinth from the lake to enable the people access the resources from the<br>
lake. However, in the past eight years the spread of this water menace<br>
has more than tripled and this is what prompted me we to re-examine the<br>
objectives as stated. If these objectives were to be re-stated in<br>
simplified English, the real meaning could be to help citizens of East<br>
Africa understand how to collaborate and manage their resources as well as<br>
reduce their stress. The project therefore has nothing to do with water<br>
hyacinth and hence the reason why the people are fighting over it.<br>
<br>
If the donor language were to be simpler, they would have thought about<br>
project sustainability in which case we did not need all the resources<br>
that is at the disposal of the fighting citizens. In my view we needed<br>
only US$50 (US$10 million for each country) to set up an organic<br>
fertilizer factory. Hyacinth has been found to be a good ingredient for<br>
organic fertilizer. Just recently I wrote a blog how soil nutrients have<br>
been depleted in densely populated districts with excessive land<br>
sub-divisions. Studies also show productivity levels dropping<br>
significantly that our food security and safety is at its worst threat.<br>
<br>
Further, chemical fertilizer may be poisoning our ground water and may be<br>
likely the cause of increased cancer cases in the region. There is<br>
greater urgency than ever before that we exploit every opportunity for<br>
developing organic fertilizer like hyacinth that would improve on<br>
productivity, ensure sustainable development and reduce its impact on our<br>
water resources. Our problems would only be solved by us and as such<br>
foreign interventions will not always be a universal remedy to our<br>
predicament.<br>
<br>
Ndemo.<br>
<br>
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</blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br>Muthoni<br><br>My Blog: <a href="http://rugongo.blogspot.com/">http://rugongo.blogspot.com/</a><br>--------------------------------------------<br>Mahatma Gandhi once said:-<br>
<br>First they ignore you,<br>Then they laugh at you,<br>Then they fight you,<br>AND THEN YOU WIN!!!<br>
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