Abstract:
Agriculture is the dominant sector of the Kenyan economy and accounts for 28 per cent of the Gross Domestic Product and provides employment to more than two thirds of the country's labour force. The sector supplies most of the country's food requirements and provides raw materials for industry, which is largely agro-based. In addition, the sector accounts for nearly 70 per cent of the country's foreign exchange earnings. The sector is dominated by about 3 million small-scale farm families who hold over 60 percent of the total arable land which is estimated to be 19 percent of the total national land. These small-scale farmers produce about 75 percent of the country's total value of agricultural output.