Constrains to agricultural productivity in Kenya

The world food summit (1996) defines food security as the physical and economic access to sufficient foods for one’s dietary needs and preference. 

Kenya’s agricultural industry has been dominated by small holder farmers who mainly consist of individual family units. Food production has barely been appreciated as a valuable industry supporting the growth of the economy. Majority of the smallholder farmers are old people who use traditional and rudimentary farming methods. Besides, perception mainly by the young population which prefer while collar jobs and denote farming as a blue collar job has mainly drawn majority of the population away from agriculture. 

Furthermore the agricultural marketing structures have either collapsed or do not champion the interests of the farmers. The enthusiasm in agricultural production by a small percentage of the youths is mainly confronted with a nightmare of few or limited agricultural markets, a factor that further discourage many from agricultural production. 

Agricultural production can be enhanced through improvement of agricultural infrastructure including farm inputs and access to capital