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Increasing Kenya’s Agricultural Competitiveness: Farm Level Issues
Author(s): Nyoro,James;Wanzala,Maria;Awour,Tom
Introduction
The objective of this paper is to address the farm level issues that affect the production costs and
so the competitiveness of domestic food and commercial production. It compares domestic
production prices of key food commodities with the equivalent parity prices to assess the extent
to which the domestic prices for maize, wheat, and sugar, and export and domestic crops are
competitive. This paper identifies and assesses the factors that influence domestic production
costs. It also identifies strategies that could increase food and export crops’ productivity, by that
reducing production costs and encourage competitiveness of the domestic production. The paper
is divided into three parts. The first parts analyses the domestic production costs of maize, wheat
and sugar, domestic horticultural crops and dairy and compares the costs of local production
costs of maize, wheat, onions with imports prices. The second section analyses production costs
for some export crops such as coffee and identifies factors that influence the domestic
production. The final part identifies policies that could reduce production costs and enhance
productivity in order to enhance Kenya’s competitiveness in agricultural.
Document Reference No: 5
Language: English
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