Budget should focus on making food affordable and cheaper to produce

I will not bore my readers with figures regarding how much was allocated to food production and where in the current budget. Quite often this does not make any sense to a reader who has no access to the whole budget, has no notion what those figures mean and will, in the final analysis, keep on going to the market buying the same food at the same price (or even more) and life continues.

What I am going to do today is to seek to establish the kind of problems the budget should have solved if we are really concerned about ensuring that more Kenyans have access to affordable and nutritious food from now on. The budget should then allow us to begin seriously implementing Article 43 in our Constitution which says: