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Poor access to agro-processing diminishes farmers' earnings

A woman tills land at Elementaita in Gilgil, Nakuru County. [Maxwell Agwanda, Standard]

Inadequate agro-processing has been blamed for shrinking earnings by Kenyan farmers.

A new study by Financial Sector Deepening Kenya (FSD) says the sub-sector is too focused on primary processing and does not use local inputs sufficiently.

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