Agriculture on its death bed as allocations dip

Farmers thrash rice at Kano Plains, Kisumu County. Allocation to agriculture are on declining trend. (Denish Ochieng, Standard)

President Uhuru Kenyatta’s government seems to have neglected the agricultural sector, a situation that might have contributed to the crippling of the country’s economy.

In a report by a policy think-tank, Tegemeo Institute of Agricultural Policy and Development, revealed a declining trend in the budgetary allocations for agriculture since the 2013/2014 financial year.