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Forum => Kenya Discussion => Topic started by: RV Pundit on April 04, 2023, 07:45:03 AM
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https://www.theeastafrican.co.ke/tea/news/east-africa/mathuki-after-somalia-we-want-addis-to-join-eac-4181390
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After Somalia, the other country we should be thinking about is Ethiopia. If we admit Ethiopia, the EAC market will be more than 500 million people. Nobody will talk matters markets and security without talking about East Africa, and that’s a conversation we have started.
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So, it is time to kill Kenyan expensive agriculture or whuot? Our agriculture has become very costly for consumers, yet the millions of illiterate Kenyans have no other possible means of livelihood.
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Yes with EAC - we need to move up value chain - leave useless crops for others with larger land holdings - and focus on turning our smallholders into high quality labour intensive farming - poultry, dairy, tea, pig - etc.
It seem to me that only sectors with mix of large plantation/large scale farmers (who bring in ideas/machinery/economies of scale) with small scale farming works (bring in their cheap labour and ready market as consumers of their own food).
So gov should concentrate on creating large scale farms - in irrigated land - as well as developing small holder farming.
So, it is time to kill Kenyan expensive agriculture or whuot? Our agriculture has become very costly for consumers, yet the millions of illiterate Kenyans have no other possible means of livelihood.