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::: AGRICULTURE

Over the last three years, the Government has implemented structural reforms aimed at general transformation of agricultural activities into more profitable, internationally competitive ventures. These reforms are detailed in the overall 10 year Strategy for Revitalizing Agriculture (SRA).

By improving efficiency and productivity in the coffee, pyrethrum, sugar, cotton and livestock industries, among other sub-sectors, the Government aims at addressing the problem of low productivity, thereby reducing poverty and unemployment in rural areas.

Some of these reforms include:

Provision of seasonal crop credit through the revamped Agricultural Finance Corporation

Stabilization of producer prices through the National Cereals & Produce Board

Amendment of the Coffee Act to allow alternative channels of selling coffee alongside the auction system.

The Government wrote off coffee farmers’ debts amounting to Kshs. 5.2 billion

The Revival of cotton currently grown by 140,000 small-scale farmers in about 40 districts and the injection of Kshs. 491 million to the sub- sector.

The Government assisted sugar factories to pay all farmers’ arrears amounting to about Kshs. 2.3 billion and advanced to AFC Kshs. 500 million from the Sugar Development Fund to be loaned to cane farmers.

The creation of a ready market for beef animals through the rehabilitation and commissioning of Kenya Meat Commission

Rehabilitation of Mwea, Ahero, Bura, Bunyala, Hola, West Kano & Pekera irrigation schemes.

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