Lower input costs to raise farmer returns, Kindiki says at Agriculture Summit
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Kenya’s agricultural transformation is increasingly being felt at the farm level as the Government moves to lower the cost of inputs, raise productivity and improve returns to farmers.
Speaking at the opening of the Agricultural and Food Security Transformation Summit at the Jamhuri Park ASK Showground in Nairobi on Wednesday, Deputy President Kithure Kindiki said reducing the cost of farming had been a central component of the Government’s agricultural agenda over the past four years.
He said the Government’s decision to place agriculture at the centre of the Bottom-Up Economic Transformation Agenda was informed by the sector’s importance to household incomes, food security, employment, industrial production and exports.
