Experts warn the agriculture sector is severely under-funded despite being a key driver of economic growth

Crate with vegetables (Photo: Courtesy)

County governments are starving agriculture of funds, putting efforts to improve food security in the country in jeopardy.

On average, counties allocated a meagre six per cent to the sector in the past three years, with most of the money going to the recurrent budget, according to a recent study by Tegemeo Institute, an agriculture think tank of Egerton University.