In the Five-Year Plan of East Africa, the focus in agriculture is on the utilization of water resources and land management, as these two involve large-scale agricultural projects that cover the whole country, with each place essentially having related needs.
Therefore, it must be noted that in the Great Lakes Region, where water sources are quite abundant, the focus on water-saving agriculture is somewhat different. Additionally, within the rice-growing areas of the Great Lakes Region, water resources management and land management are closely linked.
The Great Lakes Region places more emphasis on drainage work, specifically evidenced by more complex and detailed agricultural irrigation tools to adapt the usage of water resources, improving utilization efficiency, and simultaneously constructing a developed canal network to direct the water to its intended destinations.
