Why every county's industrial park should be unique

Trade Cabinet Secretary Rebecca Miano. [Edwin Nyarangi, Standard]

The establishment of 47 industrial and aggregation parks will herald an economic revolution. Industrial centres are by nature the panacea to turning around a growing economy and in Kenya they have the potential to transform the country into an industrialised nation with a middle income by 2030.

The budget of Sh23.5 billion with each park allocated Sh500 million shared between the national and county governments on a fifty-fifty basis is not an eye-popping figure. Yet the money could do wonders especially in the agricultural sector, the backbone of our economy contributing over 27 per cent of our GDP.