Strategic Plan 2018-2022 for the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock, Fisheries and Co-operatives.

This Strategic Plan for MOALF is a 5-year nationwide sectoral document aiming at (i) transforming the predominantly smallholder agricultural sector to modern, market-oriented agribusinesses; (ii) ensuring 100 percent food and nutrition security; (iii) enhancing the role of co-operative societies in supporting agricultural production through marketing, processing. In this regard, the Ministry has identified the following 8 strategic objectives (i) create an enabling environment for agricultural development; (ii) increase productivity and outputs in agriculture sector; (iii) enhance food and nutrition security; (iv) enhance investment in the blue economy; (v) improve market access and trade; (vi) strengthen institutional capacity; (vii) increase youth, women and vulnerable groups participation in agricultural value chains; (viii) and enhance leadership and integrity in the Ministry.
To help eliminate hunger and malnutrition, the document envisages (i) intervene in agricultural development by sustaining the crops, livestock, and fisheries resource base, increasing capacity for production, improving the delivery of extension and advisory services through capacity building, and increased farm mechanization, and supporting technology development and transfer; (ii) increase productivity through climate-smart agriculture; (iii) provide a strategic food reserve; and (iv) prioritize crops production for food security.
A more productive and sustainable agriculture shall be developed by (i) adoption of improved agricultural technologies; (ii) addressing issues of access and affordability of fertilizer by subsidizing a determined amount of fertilizers annually, coordinating soil analysis in beneficiary regions, and evaluating the impact of the subsidy program on crop productivity; (iii) farmers' access to quality seeds and planting materials of drought tolerant crops; (iv) product diversification by increasing the tea sector product range; (v) crop production on small scale irrigation through construction of water pans; (vi) plant health management clinics for diagnostic and control services on prevalent and emerging crop pests and diseases; (vii) agricultural engineering technology development; (viii) ensuring food safety of all agricultural products (safe use of drugs, chemicals and sera in control of pests, diseases and minimize residues and contaminants in agricultural products; improve traceability of crops, fisheries, livestock products); (ix) Climate Smart Agriculture practices; (x) rangeland management and conservation; (xi) increasing availability of quality breeds and improving regulation of breeding and service provision; (xii) availability of quality feeds and supplements; (xiii) animal diseases control; (xiv) aquaculture technology development and sea weeds farming; (xv) investing in Blue Economy.
To enhance more inclusive and efficient agricultural and food systems, the Government will work to (i) create an enabling environment for sustainable development of the agricultural and co-operatives sector; (ii) improve access to agricultural inputs in targeted crops, livestock and fisheries value chains through an Agricultural Inputs Access Program; (iii) develop a National Farmer Registration to conduct a census of agriculture to allow informed decision making and proper planning; (iv) improve production and marketing of the miraa (khat) crop, supporting farmers and promoting the crop through international trade fairs in order to reclaim the lost market and explore new ones; (v) revitalize industrial crops such as coffee, tea, sugarcane, cotton, nuts and oil crops, and pyrethrum; (vi) promote and provide guidance to tea industry stakeholders on investment decisions for the manufacture of high value specialty teas; (vii) promote sugarcane production and supply to factories, reduce production costs and enhance availability of high quality seed cane; (viii) improve coordination along the cotton value chain, build technical capacity of producers, and improve availability of quality inputs, and modernize processing facilities; (ix)increase youth, women and vulnerable groups’ participation in agricultural value chains.
The resilience of livelihoods to disasters will be increased by (i) adaptation measures such as CMA programs and projects and specific targeted activities; (ii) mitigation measures like reducing emissions of carbon dioxide emanating from agricultural activities, promoting agro-forestry and afforestation, reduction of deforestation, reducing the use of methane and nitrous oxide through efficient application of nitrogen-based fertilizers and sequestering carbon or carbon sinks; and (iii) promotion of a National Agricultural Insurance to manage risks and losses.
As for Governance, a general intervention regards the enhancement of leadership and integrity through: prevention of corruption and the improvement of service delivery by promoting national values and principles of governance.