Who is winning this war battle of the dwarfs?

What food items do we import from Tanzania that they feel like they can thump their bony chests?

Magufuli - "Wengine wana funga mipaka ila sisi ndio tunawalisha"

Munya - "Tuta angalia hio mwanya ambayo itatokea alafu tujaribu kuijaza, kama mkulima wa hapa hataweza basi tuna majirani wengi. Yule ambaye anaumia ni yule ambaye ana soko hapa".

And meat. TZ is the major source of live animals for slaughtering from which the meat inthe KE market comes from.

The Nyeri farmer is smallholder and the output is small.Only about 40% of land in Kenya is arable and a good portion is owned by bwenyenyes who either leave it idle or the grow flowers. Moreover, cost of production is very high in Kenya. A Ugandan friend was shocked when I informed that farmers in Kenya use manure and costly fertilizer.

From my experience, Kenya is among the best African country to live in when you have money but the least favorable to the poor.

I am surprised on how people think... if I have chicken and I usually sell to a restaurant - I don't refuse to sell it to the restaurant... because... MIMI NDIO NAWALISHA! Kwani ni msaada? Si ninapata pesa? ama? The people who breed chicken want a Market coz they cannot eat all their chicken just to spite the customer.

@BigC, Its not that easy. Market forces always wins in economic scenarios. The TZ border will soon be opened. Kijeketile Reborn will soon realize his people have tonnes upon tonnes of onions and other farm supplies and his farmers will start crying Serikali Saidia. His will then open the borders in the pretext of EAC Cooperations and Hola the Nyeri farmer with his few sacks of onions will have to content with the tarders with tones of cheap onions from TZ.


Secondly, dont be surpriused to hear the onions are now coming from Uganda. Traders will buy from TZ, move them trough UG and back to KE. Its very difficult to manipulate markets in this era

That production narrative is the half lies people have always been told about China and are now realizing that they can do it by themselves. Who are these large scale farmers in Tanzania? Most land in Tz is not in use the serengeti its self is close to 1/4 of the country. I know onions come from the district that borders loitoktok, the farm produce in Kenya sells at the same price as the Tanzanian produce the only difference is that it is at a small profit excluding the challenges he incurs from taking his food to the market.

Look, a broker will dash to TZ, thoroughly exploit that poor farmer by buying very cheaply, then bring that food to Nrb/Msa and flood the market, matching the local farmer's price. At the end of the day, he gets more than the farmer even with transportation costs being involved.

About Somalia, they are the largest exporters of live cattle in the world, don't you think they are certified? And why cant this be replicated in N.Eastern? Ama sisi tume kubali hatuwezi?

Where is this where you have no access to nolturesh water? People in Loitokitok divert this water to their farms and their production costs are relatively very cheap...the water flows all the way to Sultan/Emali hence the reason why people are rushing to farm there.
Anyway, being that you were a commuter farmer, you may have been taken advantage of. Pole


I also farm as a hobby, manure and Thuricide is what you need for vegges. TRY it

In Kenya everything is overtaxed with little to no structural support so any output ends up being expensive than imports from neighbouring countries. The market always wins and consumers will always choose the lowest priced commodities where basic goods are concerned. And please let's stop these appeals of " promoting local products" .Nobody will buy an expensive product with a cheaper similar quality product available.

This is good for the Kenyan farmer.

This is the amount of mockery we receive when we cant even copy and paste what Joseph of the bible did.