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Agriculture offered safe haven to those who lost jobs due to Covid-19

 

Man uses one of the tools he has fabricated at his maze and green gram crops at his farm in Mwatete, near Taveta, Taita-Taveta County, Kenya on May 30, 2019.[Courtesy]

Agriculture, Kenya’s backbone, grew by 4.6 per cent in 2020 compared to a 2.3 per cent growth the previous year, showed the Economic Survey 2021.

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