Land Policy in China

As is common with our policy makers, knee jerk proposals and copy pasting to come up with poor proposals lacking in creativity is the norm. This is not China or Japan. Those proposals should be thrown out together with the guys who thought them up.

I concur with Njunge. So many ways to improve productivity. We have so many small holder tea and coffee farmers. Has tea and coffee farming become unproductive because of the size of farms being used?
When you displace people and create mega farms, who is going to farm these lands? How will that income trickle to the guy who owned 1 acre? This is just another avenue for the rich and able to oppress the poor while using the poor man's land.

If the issue is to increase productivity, there are many ways to do it without displacing people. The government should build infrastructure for farmers to easily market their produce, outlaw importation of certain finished goods like potato crisps, tomato paste etc and insist on local value addition. Provide agricultural officers to go to the field and advice farmers on best practice. Make agricultural inputs affordable. Etc etc. So many things one can do on a ka-quarter and still make enough to live on.

This story is a month early,should have been published on 1st April ?
What will people come to do in the town estates i,e how will they be occupied?What happened to the million acre irrigation project(I believe in the Tana Delta)?

We are already effecting this without govt input.

Rural-urban migration has peaked with most educated fellows shunning shags as soon as after KCSE

Mnarudi tu kuzikwa and pressure is high in the towns

Problem is, same guys who don't want to live in ocha/let their kids speak 'shady' mother tongue want some inheritance/a kapuloti in the village. Mainly for status or speculation or some telephone farming.

But then, has far smaller acreage prevented the Githunguri farmer from outshining the rift valley farmers, some who upto this day have enough land to even leave sections fallow for a season?

Sounds like some policy maker is high on something.
Its utterly useless to go that direction.
You just dont uproot a people from rural homes to towns just like that.
It would take years.
Govt should concentrate on providing incentive and basic infrastructure and a good policy on land tenure and kenyans will do the rest.