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... houseplants, foliage, condiments, spices as well as high value livestock and fisheries products such as milk, beef, poultry, eggs and fish (Temu & Temu, 2005). They are grown mainly for cash value in the domestic and export markets.
A unique feature of Kenya (unlike other sub-Saharan countries) is that all types of farmers including poor, rich, large scale and smallholder farmers, do participate in HVAP. Small holder farmers for example produce 60% of all exported vegetables and fruits. These products, together with the traditional ones, have had a huge impact on the country’s economy through income flow into rural economies, increased market efficiencies, strengthened domestic supply chains, provision of employment opportunities and institutional development (Xinshen, 2003). However, in the face of market liberalization in the agricultural sector, its overall performance has not been encouraging with stagnation and even a falling of agricultural incomes. Much agricultural policy research and advocacy work remains with the involvement of all stakeholders, so that everyone involved in agriculture will be better off in the liberalized environment. Kenyan agriculture will hence be able to be efficient enough to compete at world prices or at the levels of protection that the domestic consumers or the world trade organization (WTO) allow.
(Source: Tegemeo Institute of Agricultural Policy & Development)
