Firm leases greenhouses to agribusiness investors in pilot project

Colorful freshly picked tomatoes with vines attached, from garden to table. [Photo: Standard]

Agribusiness holds great hopes for food security, but reliance on rain-fed production has prevented Kenya from exploiting its high agricultural potential.

Coupled with this is that most smallholder farmers use traditional methods and outdated technology that do not improve their output, partly due to lack of capital to modernise their operations.