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Browsing: youths taking up farming
- Kenyan youth are frequently asked to consider farming as a way of making a living
- Some agree while others rubbish the trade saying it is difficult
- Challenges facing farmers in Kenya include the high cost of farming inputs, cartels along the production chain and lack of sufficient land for farming commercially
Kenyan youth have been urged time and time again to turn to farming to make a living, amid high levels of unemployment. They are also frequently asked to use farming as a means of increasing the amount of food produced in the economy to aid food security.
For instance, youths in Elgeyo Marakwet were recently urged to engage in crop farming for economic purposes. Crop farming would also reduce their over reliance on livestock farming, which has contributed to banditry in the region.
A finding by the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) explains that agriculture contributes 33% to the …
