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Public Private Partnership Grows Kenya’s Agriculture Fortunes
By Soko Directory Team / Published December 28, 2020 | 9:47 am
Kenya’s agriculture has beaten the odds of a difficult 2020 to end on a high, having registered one of the best growth trajectories across key segments in a long time.
Indeed these fortunes are attributable to a fairly good weather and unprecedented coordination in the delivery of inputs and services as witnessed during the Covid-19 lockdown when President Uhuru Kenyatta on advice from the private sector placed agriculture among the essential services to be exempted from the curfew.
Not even the invasion of desert locusts early in the year and the hovering around of the pest dampened farm production. The government and private sector players quickly assembled an assault which, together with nature, subdued arguably the most dreaded crop insect.