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There are about 52,000 heactares of land under traditional
irrigation in the region. Crops like coffee, bananas, vegetables
and fruits are grown in these areas. Modern irrigation is at Arusha
Chini area with 7,800 ha. Under sugar cane. Lower Moshi and
Ndungu are among modern irrigation schemes with about 900-
1100 ha. Problems facing irrigation activities are mainly
inadequate water supply for irrigation mainly river water, and
proper irrigation management systems. In order to curb this
bottleneck the region needs to explone the possibility of getting
underground water or attempts should be made to draw water
from Miwaleni project/kikuletwa.
6.2 Livestock:
Dairy cattle farming has much potential in the highland and
intermediate zones. Introduction of Heifer Project International
has proved successful and of much benefit to peasant farmers in
the region. Further expansion of this project will not only raise
their incomes from more milk sales but will too positively affect
development of coffee/bananas farms by increasing the level of
soil fertility through more cattle manure application.
Another area of potential investment in livestock lies in
strengthening of Artificial insemination project. Timely service
required by livestock keepers is very essential in the improvement
of the local breed or in multiplication of better dairy cattle. The
already existing A.1 centres, many of them are non functioning
through different reasons. Currently only 8 centres out of the 24
centres are rendering service. The district concils and NGO could
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