At the bank of the Yangtze River, are located the largest rice growing fields in China. Indeed fried rice was invented in Yangzhou.
Why is this significant? A certain initiative has been set in motion at the Embu County Assembly, to give a fraction of the 54 000 acre Mwea rice scheme in Mbeere South to the Chinese city of Yangzhou, granting exclusive privileges and access, so the Chinese can establish a city like Yangzhou at the heartland of Kenya’s prime rice paddies.
How is it possible to allow such an initiative to pass without secondary scrutiny from central government, any initiative which present a probability of introducing a threat to the nation’s food security, ought to come under an independent tribunal for scrutiny?
I will write no more, every person with a little wit will have an understanding of the dire implications, we already have the SGU deal and if anyone has forgotten about Naivasha County; a few years ago they handed Chinese investor the fine fresh water, Lake Naivasha, one can guess after years of harvesting large quantities of eggs from the lake, destruction of fish stock diversity resulted. China is now mmm……the largest exporter of Tilapia from its fish ponds.
In only a few years, China will be the largest grower of the Mwea variety rice and a weed so hideous will have invaded the Mwea rice paddies, and off course we will need to import our rice from Yanfzhou.
Why can we not build superb Kenyan villages, engage students from the universities and local intuitions to present designs in a completion? The Chinese and other tourists can stay there.
https://www.nation.co.ke/counties/meru/Row-on-Mwea-land-escalates/1183302-3303942-j8rvplz/index.html
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