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The year 2018 was not very exciting for many businesses across the most productive sectors. We in, agriculture, like many other affected industries, jump into 2019 with guarded optimism. Last year’s rains cannot be said to have fallen as expected. The long rains were a deluge while the short season was erratic and intermittent throwing off balance planting and harvesting sufficient quantities. Although the country was not exposed to drought, that we are reliant on rain-fed farming means unreliable rains translate to poor production. For a nation like ours, still agriculture-driven, a poor agriculture year leads to high food prices and pushes up inflation.
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