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A case for repurposing land use for agriculture

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A farmer walks through a maize farm at the Hola irrigation scheme in Tana River County.  [Nehemiah Okwembah, Standard]

Experts have backed the decision at a Cabinet meeting last month to repossess idle land owned by public institutions for agricultural production.

A dispatch after the meeting stated that the Policy on Large Scale Commercialisation of Public land held for Agricultural Production seeks to provide a framework for the utilisation of idle land owned by public institutions for large-scale commercial agricultural production.

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