Kenya's senators encourage saving of cash crops from the brink

Senators have warned the country’s economic backbone is under threat because farmers have lost interest in cash crop farming, from which they derive little or no financial gain.

The senators, who were speaking during the Senate’s Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries committee meeting noted that brokers and middlemen have hijacked farming and impoverished farmers and said the sector can only recover through introduction of policies and laws that can make the farmer the chief beneficiary.