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Item A Preliminary Report on the Suitability of the area of Busia District for Sugar Cane Development, 1975(Ministry of Agriculture, 1975) Mbuvi, J.P.; Ministry of AgricultureBusia is one of the districts in the Western Province of Kenya bordering Uganda and stretching southwards to L. Victoria (see fig. 1). It covers an area of 1629 sq. km. and a population of 174.2 thousand (1969 census). The majority of the inhabitants are Luhyas and Teso. Communication in the district as revealed in fig. J is mainly by road. The only tarmac roads are those from Kisumu to Busia and from Bungoma to Tororo. The railway to Tororo in Uganda passes through the northern part of the district through Kalaba. The road from Mumias to Busia through Nambale is impassable during the rainy season because of unstable surface. In order to direct attention to possible sites for sugar cane development a prior examination of several factors including climate, natural water resources, accessability, centrality of the site and soil quality were considered. Only the Sio and Walatsi rivers are conveniently situated to facilitate a sugar cane development which may command a large area of land within Busia District. Moreover, the rainfall (see the data in brackets in fig. 1) in the area bordering these two rivers seems to be the best for the District. The area indicated in fig. 2 was therefore selected for field study.Item Proposed South Nyanza Sugar Project Kenya Investigation Phase I HM(The Mehta Group Limited, 1972/1973) KSS Ministry of Agriculture; Ministry of AgricultureThe Republic of Kenya is situated astride equator and extends from latitude 4º to 4º5 and longitude from 340 E to 41º E. It has a total area of about 224, 960 square miles. It is bordered on the north by Ethiopia and Sudan, on the south by Tanzania, on the west by Uganda and on the east by the Indian Ocean and Somalia. The two most important rivers, the Tana and Galana rise in the eastern high lands and flow southeast to the Indian Ocean. The western high lands generally drain into Lake Victoria through the Nzola, Yala, Mara and Nyando rivers. The river Ewaso Ng'iro drains southern portion of eastern high lands into Lake Victoria.Item Small Scale Sugar production in Kenya Vol IV 1979(Ministry of Agriculture, 1979) Kenya Soil SurveyAs with other crops cane cultivation requires certain optimum conditions. The factors that determine the inherent potential of any unit of land are its topography, climate and soil. Such physical and climatic factors therefore guided the survey for suitable cane growing areas. Such areas were indentified in Nyanza Province, Western Province, Coast Province, Eastern Province and Rift Valley Province, and were subsequently listed.
