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Agriculture in Kenya. Potatoes harvested from a Kenyan farm. Agriculture in Kenya dominates Kenya's economy. 15–17 percent of Kenya's total land area has sufficient fertility and rainfall to be farmed, and 7–8 percent can be classified as first-class land. [1] [2] In 2006, almost 75 percent of working Kenyans made their living by farming ...
Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa. AGRA, formerly known as the Alliance for Green Revolution in Africa is an African-led African-based organization that seeks to catalyse Agriculture Transformation in Africa. AGRA is focused on putting smallholder farmers at the centre of the continent's growing economy by transforming agriculture from ...
Kenya and the World Bank. The World Bank has provided financial support for infrastructure and development programs in Kenya dating back to May 1960. [1] The first Kenyan project that was financed by the World Bank was the African Agriculture Project, the World Bank issued the then British Colony with $5.6 million to invest in infrastructure ...
Apollo Agriculture believes it can attain profits by helping Kenya's smallholder farmers maximize theirs. Founded in 2016, Apollo Agriculture offers a mobile-based product suit for farmers that ...
The Galana Kulalu Project is a US$52,670,000 project by the government of Kenya in partnership with the private sector aimed at providing Food Security. The National Irrigation Authority is the implementing agency. On completion the scheme is set to be the biggest in east and southern Africa and a major milestone for Kenya in attaining food ...
Agriculture remains an important component of Kenyan households' economic and social well-being. Climate change is already affecting the country's agricultural sector, which is responsible for over 33 percent of Kenya's GDP and is the primary source of sustenance for 60% of the population.
In 2010, there were more than twenty large micro finance institutions in Kenya, which provided US $1.5 billion to approximately 1.5 million active borrowers. According to their gross loan portfolio, the five largest institutions are: Equity Bank Kenya has a market share of 73.50%, a gross loan portfolio of 924,993,804 Kenyan Shilling and ...
The economy of Kenya is market-based with a few state enterprises. Kenya has an emerging market and is an averagely industrialised nation ahead of its East African peers. Currently a lower middle income nation, Kenya plans to be a newly industrialised nation by 2030.