In rural Kenya, most women use a hoe for their agricultural activities, a default sign of agriculture. Recently at a high-level lecture to an international audience of the Jomo Kenyatta University of Agricultural Technologies by Dr Kaumbutho, Managing Director, Agrimech Africa Limited pointed out ways in which Youthful Entrepreneurs can enter Kenya’s Agricultural Mechanisation sector and make a great business of it. At the moment mechanisation levels on farms across Africa are very low, with the number of tractors in Sub-Saharan Africa ranging from 1.3 per square kilometre in Rwanda to 43 per square kilometre in South Africa, compared with 128 per square kilometre in India and 116 per square kilometre in Brazil. It would be unthinkable and counterproductive, to think of developing agriculture in Kenya by continuing to use the orthodox means of farming and low yielding agricultural paraphernalia. “Agricultural Mechanization Services Hubs (AMSH) business model take deeper root and spread faster, to make CA and CSA workable.

Source: Standard Digital September 24, 2020 06:22 UTC