{"id":3597,"date":"2025-05-22T10:20:40","date_gmt":"2025-05-22T10:20:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thenewsroomhub.co.ke\/?p=3597"},"modified":"2025-05-22T10:20:40","modified_gmt":"2025-05-22T10:20:40","slug":"galana-kulalu-food-security-project-nears-completion-with-major-infrastructure-milestones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenewsroomhub.co.ke\/index.php\/2025\/05\/22\/galana-kulalu-food-security-project-nears-completion-with-major-infrastructure-milestones\/","title":{"rendered":"Galana-Kulalu Food Security Project Nears completion With Major Infrastructure Milestones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By:Esther Korio<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The completion of construction works at the Galana-Kulalu Food Security Project&#8217;s siltation basin and water canal marks a significant milestone in actualising the long-awaited food production initiative.<\/p>\n<p>The Sh519.4 million infrastructure is now undergoing final testing. It comprises a 753-metre inlet canal, a 450 million litre-reservoir, a 1,210-metre outlet canal, and a 20 million-litre off-take water supply source.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.citizen.digital\/104573\/conversions\/Wahome-og_image.webp\" alt=\"Galana Kulalu food security project attracts 15 private investors\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Through a public-private partnership, we are now now poised to significantly scale up food production in line with the government commitment to making Kenya food sufficient&#8221; said president William Ruto.<\/p>\n<p>He inspected the completed works at the Galana-Kulalu Food Security Project in Kilifi and Tana River counties.<\/p>\n<p>Also inspected the construction of the Galana-Kulalu Bridge and access road, a critical infrastructure that will facilitate the efficient movement of produce from the farms to markets.<\/p>\n<p>The construction of the project&#8217;s electricity supply, which will lower the cost of production by eliminating the use of diesel to power the farm was inspected too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By:Esther Korio The completion of construction works at the Galana-Kulalu Food Security Project&#8217;s siltation basin and water canal marks a&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3598,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thenewsroomhub.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/888888.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsroomhub.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsroomhub.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsroomhub.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsroomhub.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsroomhub.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3597"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsroomhub.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3599,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsroomhub.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3597\/revisions\/3599"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsroomhub.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsroomhub.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsroomhub.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsroomhub.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}