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How subsidies back food security and production

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Farmers push a handcart perched with fertiliser at Giakaibei Village in Mathira. [Kibata Kihu, Standard]

Government fertiliser, seed subsidies and cooperation between State Department for Agriculture and devolved governments are turning around prospects of the country's food security and general food production.

Learning from trends in Malawi that bumped in huge food productions between 2002 and 2004 new policy directions by the State Department of Agriculture have helped jumpstart Kenya's food security which had deteriorated to threatening levels by end of 2022.

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