Changing Agriculture’s image among young people in Kenya

In Kenya, the normal age of an agriculturist is 60 years. The 2009 enumeration demonstrates that out of a populace of pretty nearly 38 million individuals, youth (15-35 years) and youngsters (0-14 years) together speak to 78% of the Kenyan populace. The Kenyan unemployment rate remains at roughly 40%. An expected 64% of the nation’s unemployed are the young.

A substantial partition exists in the agrarian part, regardless of the area developing as the second biggest outside trade earner in the Kenyan economy. The young populace has opted to desert horticulture in quest for salaried openings for work in urban focuses and urban communities.

Farming has a picture issue. Basically, for most of the world’s childhood, farming essentially isn’t seen as being “cool” or alluring. Most consider it just as extremely heavy work, without a financial pay-off — and no place for professional success.

With an ageing farming population, its agreeable that farming needs to draw in more youngsters.

 

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