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Kenya should convert the Import Bill into a green production plan

Kenya Ports Authority Gantry Cranes offloading containers at the container terminal’s Port of Mombasa on January 22, 2022. [Maarufu Mohamed, Standard].

At Kavisuni market in Kitui County, a livestock farmer named Mutonga once boasted he did not need arithmetic because his eyes could count cattle.

By sunset, he had sold three of his bulls, bought lunch for his buddies, paid the broker handsomely, paid transport twice, and arrived home with less money than the price of one calf.

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