Maize, beans, sorghum, millet, tea and coffee recorded reduced productivity in 2021.
Improved production was witnessed in volumes of sugar cane, milk and horticultural products.
Agriculture, Kenya’s economic backbone, was the only sector that contracted last year, by 0.2 per cent, due to poor rainfalls, high prices of inputs and attacks on crops, the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics (KNBS) said yesterday.
In 2020, the sector recorded a growth of 5.2 per cent. KNBS’s Economic Survey 2022 showed that among crops that recorded reduced productivity in 2021 were maize, beans, sorghum, millet, tea and coffee.
