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Good to see attempt to get Ethiopia to join EAC
« on: April 04, 2023, 07:45:03 AM »
https://www.theeastafrican.co.ke/tea/news/east-africa/mathuki-after-somalia-we-want-addis-to-join-eac-4181390

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Re: Good to see attempt to get Ethiopia to join EAC
« Reply #1 on: April 04, 2023, 07:46:22 AM »

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Re: Good to see attempt to get Ethiopia to join EAC
« Reply #2 on: April 04, 2023, 08:06:32 AM »
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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Re: Good to see attempt to get Ethiopia to join EAC
« Reply #3 on: April 04, 2023, 08:10:14 AM »
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.