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Deputy President Kithure Kindiki addresses leaders from Kiambu county during a meeting at his Karen home, February 10, 2025. /DPCSFarmers in key sectors across the country have earned higher incomes owing to friendly government interventions that have been implemented over the last two years.
The better earnings have been realised in the majority of sectors including coffee, tea, dairy, sugar and maize, pointing to fruitful policies being rolled out by the Kenya Kwanza administration.
Deputy President Kithure Kindiki on Monday said the higher returns are not miraculous but from hard work and tough decisions made by President William Ruto.
In the tea sector, total earnings in 2022 were Sh161 billion, in 2023, it was Sh81 billion and in 2024, Sh210 billion, the DP said.
“We produced more tea last year than before. The figures speak for themselves; it is not a miracle, it is because of interventions to promote earnings: subsidised fertiliser, changing governance and tea legislation to ensure cartels don’t come in between the farmer and their earnings and others,” Kindiki said.
He spoke when he hosted a delegation of leaders and grassroots representatives from Kiambu at his official residence in Karen, Nairobi, for a review meeting on the implementation of government-sponsored projects in the county.
Coffee earnings have significantly gone up as well with farmers reporting better income than before owing to an array of interventions rolled out by the government, the DP observed.
In the 2022-23 season, it sold for 188 dollars/50kg, in the 2023-24 season it was sold for 225 dollars/50kg and now 2024-25 it is going for 319 dollars/50kg bag.
Farmers earned an average of Sh60 per Kg of cherry in the 2022 season, in 2023, it earned Sh71/kg and in 2024, Sh100/kg of cherry.
“We are working on all these value chains to bring more money to the pockets of ordinary people across the country,” the DP assured.
More sectors have also reported higher earnings as the government focuses on further stabilising the sectors for farmers to enjoy increased returns.
Kindiki said milk prices have gone up from Sh37 per litre two years ago to Sh50 and recently, sugar farmers received bonuses for the first time in decades.
“The interventions are all over. We want to empower farmers so they have more returns. This year, Kenya will not import a single bag of sugar, neither will we import a single bag of maize,” the Deputy President affirmed.
Other sectors being focused on are rice, wheat, potatoes, avocado, macadamia and other nuts.
Kindiki has been holding meetings with county delegations to review implementation of county economic charters and the status of development priorities.
On Monday, he assured the Kiambu delegation that the President Ruto remains keen on accelarating development priorities in the county.
“Kiambu is at the center of President Ruto’s Administration. Kiambu gave the President the highest number of votes from a single county. Why should the President take the agenda of Kiambu? He is focused on development in the county,” Kindiki said.
He added that all the stalled roads in the county are being revived after the government allocated funds for them.
“Every stalled road project in Kiambu will be revived. We now have funds for the roads. We are also extending electricity connection because we have enough funds for the project in the county,” he said.
Presently, the government is constructing thousands of affordable housing units in Ruiru, Thika, Limuru, Kikuyu and dozens of modern markets as well as reviving roads in the county.
The DP said the focus remains on service to Kenyans not retrogressive and supremacy political battles.
“It is not about the length of time one serves as President, it is about the positive impact one makes in office. That is what the President is focused on now,” he added.
