Busia County is not only endowed with enormous natural resources but also strategically located at the border point linking Kenya to neighbouring Uganda.
Usually, both Malaba and Busia town border points are a busy with traders from Kenya and Uganda freely moving their merchandises without any restrictions. Nonetheless, with a poverty index of 67 per cent, Busia has been ranked amongst the poorest counties. Since the collapse of a cotton processing plant many farmers were left hopeless.