You travel to Mt Kenya and what you see is that all the rural land is covered in grevillea trees. Then all vijana run to the city to hustle because the trees always outcompete the crops reducing crop yields. We should be getting 30 bags of maize per acre like mzungu does. And with 2 growing seasons that we have in mt kenya, we should be getting 60 bags per acre per yr. Our land productivity should be like mzungu’s coz we also use hybrid seeds and fertilisers, improved breeds of livestock etc.
Instead of those stupid trees one could plant nappier grass on the whole land. 1 acre of nappier can support 3 dairy cows that produce 60 litres of milk daily which is 2,700 bob per day. Why go to nairobi to hawk mali mali while 2,700 is waiting for you daily in the village.
Or put the land under sukuma wiki or spinach. An acre can have 10000 plants and if you harvest 1 leaf per plant a day and sell each leaf at 1 bob, then thats 10,000 bob per day. Na nairobi lazima all the 5m people wakule sukuma na ugali every day and if everyone eats 5 leaves a day, thats a market of 25,000,000 bob each day.
Grevillea trees don’t affect the land that much. Plus, they can handle heavy pruning. You can prune all the branches and it will still grow. Other factors affect low productivity. Eucalyptus is the worst.
It’s easy to throw figures that equate to daily earnings in the farm, but nobody is talking about the cost of production and the skills required by the entrepreneur to generate those daily figures shown above. And then now we have the government interference role in every single fcukn thing a commoner is doing.
Hio project yake will be a major failure. Some areas are too dry to farm and the borehole water too salty. Kama mimea haitauawa na jua inauawa na the salty water. Galana kulalu may be dry too but they use the fresh tana river water to irrigate.
As usual kazi ni blaming everyone else and not yourself. What special skills does one need kupanda sukuma and harvesting daily? Serikali inaingilia wapi?
Explain those other factors that affect productivity.
If the japanese are having high productivity on their 50x100 plots in tokyo city how come we cant have the same in our rural lands that even have permanent rivers with crystal clear waters?
Acha Wazidi kulala tukitengeneza mabilioni. Imagine these crops courtesy of irrigation in dry magharini constituency.
Ever green Mt Kenya, western & rift valley can do wonders if the youths get serious.
Have you ever tried to do any farming? Gardening maybe? Not commercially but as a hobby? Or have you ever tried running a small kiosk? Au any business for that matter? I’m surprised you started so eloquent only to illustrate ignorance at the end of your argument
