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THE BIG FOUR AGENDA

AGRICULTURE: FOOD & NUTRITION SECURITY

President Uhuru Kenyatta’s 2018 - 2022 focus areas

In a nutshell, the BIG 4 Agenda are the presidents’ priority areas that his government would tackle during
his second term in office. They include Manufacturing, Food and Nutrition Security, Health and Housing.
In agriculture, the objective is for large-scale production to achieve 700,000 new acres of maize, potato,

and rice to be cultivated under a private-public partnership scheme. The government aims to increase
Kenya’s maize production from the current 40 million bags to 67 million by 2022 and potato from 1.6
million tons to 2.5 million tons during this period. To use more of locally blended fertiliser, apply waivers
of duty for cereal-drying equipment, bags, and fishing equipment. To boost smallholder productivity
with 68 new fishing vessels at the Coast, curb illegal fishing in Kenya’s waters, build a new shipyard, have

traceability of animals to drive exports, adopt a warehouse receipt system and a commodity fund for
farmers. To train 1,000 SMEs in food processing along the value chain. Also, to reduce the cost of food,
the government will initiate contract farmering to supply to the strategic food reserve and embark on

a subsidy model for farmers to realize investments in post-harvest loss reduction, adopt early warning
systems, rehabilite fish landing sites at Busia, Migori, Homa Bay and elimination of multiple levies along
the value chain.

Land under irrigation Small holder production & value addition
Food availability – maize, rice and potatoes
‘000 Acres % of agricultural production and exports
Maize (90Kg bags annually) 1,200 50
1,200 50
1,040 45
40M 46M 67M 42
0M Bags 1,000 40
2017 2018 2022 880 35
Rice 800 720 35 28
30
600 500 540 25 21
112,800MT 124,080MT 406,486MT 20 16
0MT 2018 2022 400 15
Potatoes 200 10
5
1.3Mil MT 1.55Mil MT 0 0
0MT 2018 2.52Mil MT 2017 18 19 20 21 2022 2017 18 19 20 21 2022

1000 Production SMEs Jobs created Affordability
No. of businesses ‘000 Cost of food as a percentage of income
1,000 Direct Indirect 1,150 4,500
1,000 50 47
900 800 45 43
800 1,100 1,500 40 39 35
700 600 35 30
600 1,000 30 25
500 400 25
400 20
300 200 750 15
200 500 10
100 0 200 5
0 0
2017 18 19 20 21 2022 2018 19 20 21 22 Total 2017 18 19 20 21 2022

Overview chart of the BIG 4 Food & Nutrition agenda

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