The questions @murchr asks sometimes makes me wonder if he has any understanding

Try to answer...counter question etc.

Still wondering what advantage the Kirinyaga egg farmer has against the one in Kiambu.

I would like you to keep chicken in Kirinyaga then come here telling us how fantastic they are doing.

This is what is driving farmers crazy and mad.

Obi all the way in Japan thinks that it's all about good policies. Nope.

Kenyans are over taxed and its going to kill all industries. It is that simple.

But like I said, go keep chicken then come here and tell us about this new technology that you have found in Kirinyaga that will make zero rated tax in UG be beaten by 16% VAT in Kenya.

Look at the car thing. They will ban 8 year old cars. Instead of increasing the tax on those, they ban them. So that we can buy useless Lancers and VW Polo from mediocre companies. All in the name of saving industries. Heck thousands of jobs are going to be lost in July as we await VW Polo.

Reduce tax on locally manufactured cars would be best. But what do I know. I only know chicken feed in Kenya is more expensive in Kenya than UG.

I mean they tax everything and we still can't get them to build a bloody dam.

Most useless gov't in East Africa by a mile and we are still digging. But heck go on I am sure Pastor Nganga and Owour shall pray for us.

I know of 3 farmers who used to keep chicken. They have stopped. They import from UG and TZ. It's damn cheaper. One has even set up his farm in UG.

Mathematically it sounds logical but factually it isn't.

Uganda imports the bloody inputs from Kenya so their costs of production should be higher negating the currency effect.

Think about this. Pineapples from Thika...Thika to Nairobi are more expensive than pineapples from Tanzania a place so far you take days to get to. There is a place I can take you called Kenyan ndogo with Kenyan farmers with gumboots.

Onions are coming all the way from Rwanda. Eggs from Uganda. Charcoal from Somalia...I mean this has happened in the last 5 years.

The number of Kenyan farmers in TZ would surpise you. Input by input, the cost of production of a single onion is at times 10 times lower than Kenya.

UG and TZ gov'ts have pulled every stop to protect their farmers. Here,we can't even pay them for maize..

Such a shame. Pineapples for crying out loud. This gov't has systematically killed local production. Now even our brains are being used in TZ and UG.

All because they are busy buying towels and booze for strange dams.

Pathetic.