TATIZO LA NJAA KENYA

BestOfMyKind · 2018-10-12T07:26:26+00:00

we've been hearing about Kenya being infertile or not arable, but is this really the only reason Kenya is starving? According to FAO a UN organization for food and agriculture Kenya has 0.133 hectares per person of arable land which is more than Belgium 0.073 hectares per person, Botswana 0.125, Burundi 0.115, Chile 0.075, India 0.123, Italy 0.113, Israel 0.035, Jamaica 0.044, Japan 0.033, North Korea 0.094, Liberia 0.116, Rwanda 0.107, Vietnam 0.071 and many others. This means if the Kenyan working class were to engage in food based agriculture with the land equally divided, they would surpass the likes of North Korea, Rwanda and Botswana in terms of food security. But the land being of the few( who apparently don't live there or don't have any food security issues) and that the products being cultivated are cash crops our poor neighbors think its because they don't have enough land to cultivate. Kenyans, it's not that your land is not fertile ( even mighty Tanzania isn't whole fertile), you have bad land laws. You need a reform act in your land laws. If you can grow tea, the same area can grow maize as well, even where potatoes are grown maize can be grown as well. According to online reports the number of working kenyans in Agriculture declined from 80% in the 70s to 75% in mid 2000s to 40% in 2018. This is bad, you dont even offer such good exports in industry and services to abandon Agriculture like this. Go back in the fields and rescue your Turkana brothers. Appeal to your representatives to reform land act as well. And stop comparing yourselves with Tanzania.

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Start date Oct 12, 2018

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