I read they lease thousands of acres at $2 per acre…si watu walime food huko…chai ni ya faida Gani at 200 Bob lease per acre…254 Kuna jokes :D:D:D
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The prices they lease the land is a joke but they bribe some government official and the matter gets “forgotten”. When people make too much noise, the so called leaders incite people for populism purposes and end up getting allocated some acres and all is forgotten. I would rather have a tea estate paying peanuts to hundred thousand Kenyans rather that thousands of acres grabbed for the benefit of 50 people.
The current lease amount in kenyan highlands is 15k per year not even 7k.
Hapa kuna mchezo .
Kwani Kenya kumekosa land ya kulima food. On my recent tour of Central, most land is only 10-15% utilized. Lots of idle land. It’s 2022, farmers in Kenya do not know:
- Intercropping
- Rotational cropping
- Share cropping
- Agricultural efficiency
I think what ails Kenyan agriculture lacks is inefficiency and lack on investment in modern methods. People who study agriculture in university are forced to the degrees rather than by choice(correct me If I am wrong) and therefore we have uninterested agricultural experts working for the ministry. Agricultural experts in private practice or employment are well compensated and invest more in knowledge acquisition but they are a small majority and don’t serve majority of the country.Intercropping and rotational cropping should be through agricultural education which is lacking.
Share cropping might work for underutilized land but the problem is that Kenyans have become dishonest and before you know it your land will have cases for decades so many prefer to leave it underutilized till they are ready to use it, maybe the Ministry and parliament can develop laws that can help avoid such scenarios and share cropping can be a reality. Also we need better storage methods for our harvests; we should be able to store maize for at least 3 years and that way unga should be 80 KES instead of eating everything and praying for rain.
It won’t be business as usual in Hustler government
His cronies will take all those lands
Moi took loans from abroad and part of the condition was that Kenya cannot produce competing products to those countries. Cotton industry was the first to go, then sugar.