Does Kenya currently have enough land?

[Sambamba]

@Mwanakijiji

It has nothing to do with laziness. investing in other parts of Kenya will shift the centre of power

Who do you need to invest in ‘‘other parts of Kenya’’ as you say ? when county governments like Turkana ,Kilifi and Mandera zinapata 10 billion shillings a year ,wanangojea nani aende aweke pesa kwa hizo deserts zao ?

[Bazuka]

@Mjuaji

Does Kenya currently have enough land?

While Kenya has an area of roughly 582,646 square kilometres (58,264,600 hectares), “only 20 percent of the land surface can support rain-fed agriculture (medium to high potential). About 75 percent of the country’s population lives in these areas, with population densities as high as 2,000 per square kilometre in some parts”. Further, even within this narrow arable area, the distribution of land is inequitable, for “more than half of the nation’s arable land is in the hands of only 20 percent of the population.” Such was the situation in 2006. By 2016, according to the World Bank, just 10 per cent of Kenya’s land was arable.

Kenya: A Question of Land - The Elephant

Hapo Turkana pako Sawa, Nairobi shamba ya mawe ifanye extension huko

[Cheza_juu]

politicians and their hangers-on have to keep the country in a state of confusion/capture for their investments to thrive otherwise if systems work they will be useless.

[Mwanakijiji]

@Sambamba

Who do you need to invest in ‘‘other parts of Kenya’’ as you say ? when county governments like Turkana ,Kilifi and Mandera zinapata 10 billion shillings a year ,wanangojea nani aende aweke pesa kwa hizo deserts zao ?

Nairobi also gets more revenue but they are always getting new highways and biapases houses and everything from the national government

[byro]

@Mwanakijiji

The politicians and billionaires have interests and investments in Nairobi and people moving to any other part will make their overpriced property worthless. Also if Nairobi is powerless the national government is also powerless

I dont think you get whats being discussed.

[Mjuaji]

@byro

we can grow so many things on large scale on our semi arid land…from olives to dates palm.

Other countries produce so much on much worse land.

[mtadao]

@byro

we can grow so many things on large scale on our semi arid land…from olives to dates palm.

Yes, but where is the large scale land? The land you are talking about is either owned communally by clans who have resisted change for eons or already subdivided into uneconomic units.

[Mjuaji]

@mtadao

Yes, but where is the large scale land? The land you are talking about is either owned communally by clans who have resisted change for eons or already subdivided into uneconomic units.

Please stop with this bullshit of “resisted change”. Soma kabla ya kuropoka.

How many primary & secondary schools per thousand residents in 1965, 75, 95… In the old NFD vs middle belt Kenya.

Also please tell me about number of agricultural extension officers sent to NFD vs those sent to “high potential areas” when Ministry of Agriculture still did that.

How many kilometers of graded road in northern half of Kenya before 2010 ? There probably more road in tiny Muranga than all of NFD today.

Umbwa za central.

[uwesmake]

@CD Za Mutambaruka

There was Dry Land Agriculture student exchange with Israel for rehabilitation of the ASALs in Kenya. Never heard of them for a long time.

@inzhener otmetka was one of the students atuambie

[Jimjones]

@byro

After doing research on farming on the said 80 percent of arid land, 50 percent of that land can be very effective if rehabilitated with modern farming technology. But as someones always, waafrika ni wavivu.

I do not agree with you… But, yes! Ours is a messed up nation.

[inzhener_otmetka]

@uwesmake

@inzhener otmetka was one of the students atuambie

:D:D:D

[Mwanakijiji]

@byro

I dont think you get whats being discussed.

According to you why is the government not investing in any other part of Kenya?

[mtadao]

Sawa

@Mjuaji

Please stop with this bullshit of “resisted change”. Soma kabla ya kuropoka.

How many primary & secondary schools per thousand residents in 1965, 75, 95… In the old NFD vs middle belt Kenya.

Also please tell me about number of agricultural extension officers sent to NFD vs those sent to “high potential areas” when Ministry of Agriculture still did that.

How many kilometers of graded road in northern half of Kenya before 2010 ? There probably more road in tiny Muranga than all of NFD today.

Umbwa za central.

Sawa, but a cow that produces lots of milk is supplemented with mineral salts and not a donkey that only knows how to kick around

[Mjuaji]

@mtadao

Sawa

Sawa, but a cow that produces lots of milk is supplemented with mineral salts and not a donkey that only knows how to kick around

Thank god for devolution. More has been done in those areas in the last 10 than the previous 40.

[byro]

@Mwanakijiji

According to you why is the government not investing in any other part of Kenya?

Lack of visionary leaders followed by poor policies. Galana irrigation project is a good example of how government can utilise the arid land. Have you seen any “power shift” to that area?

[CD_Za_Mutambaruka]

@inzhener otmetka

:D:D:D

Mlikamua wayahudiress mka sahau mission and vision ikawa blurry.

[mentor]

@nobert

Looking ar Kenya in Google maps i see 3/4 is just desert

Israel is 100% percent desert!!

[mentor]

The question would be does Kenya have enough working brains??

[mishale]

and remember day by day we are losing some of that arable land to concrete investments.

[Mjuaji]

@mishale

and remember day by day we are losing some of that arable land to concrete investments.

This is a policy failure thru and thru.