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Table 6.3: Fertilizer Subsidies
Fertilizer Type
Market price for 50kg bag Price
(Kshs.)
Subsidized price for 50kg bag Price
(Kshs.)
DAP 3,400 1,800
CAN 2,700 1,500
UREA 2,800 1,500
NPKs 3,150 1,800
SA 1,800 1,300
Source:
Table 6.4: AFC Lending to the Agricultural Sector
Financial Year
Amount Disbursed in
Kshs. Millions
SDA
Number of Beneficiaries
2009/2010 1,533 6,256
2010/2011 2,146 7,742
2011/2012 1,671 8,499
2012/2013 3,318 17,414
2013/2014 3,229 16,887
Source: SDA
The Government, through the Agriculture, Food and Fisheries Authority (AFFA) Established Commodities
Development Fund, which was made operational in August 2014 by merging the coffee Development Fund and the
Sugar Development Levy. A total of Kshs 2.321 billion has so far been disbursed to coffee farmers in the coffee (Kshs
421 M) and Sugar (Kshs 1.9 billion) sub-sectors.
Agricultural Credit Guarantee Scheme (ACGS) has been implemented through the National Accelerated Agricultural
Inputs Access Programme since 2008. Through the agreement signed by the Government and Participating Financial
Institutions (PFIs) in implementation of ACGS, as at December 2014, four (4) PFIs namely Kenya Women Finance
Trust, Cooperative Bank of Kenya, Family Bank and Equity Bank had cumulatively disbursed KSh 3.4 billion to 25,071
beneficiaries who included small scale farmers, agro dealers and other value chain players.
The government and its partners namely Equity Bank, Alliance for Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA), and International
Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) implemented the Kilimo biashara partnership which supported access to
farm inputs by farmers, input stocks by agro dealers and farm machinery by large scale farmers. As at December 2014,
KSh5 billion had cumulatively been lent to 69,000 beneficiaries.
The Ministry implemented a number of programmes aimed at enhancing access to inputs by famers. The Kilimo Plus
programme supported resource poor farmers with targeted subsidy in the form of an inputs package for growing
one (1) acre of maize. In 2013/2014 FY the programme supported 9,050 farmers with inputs worth Kshs. 990 Million.
The Kenya Agricultural Genetic Resources Centre (KAGRC), through its network of agents distributed 566,506 and
626,009 vaccine doses in 2013 and 2014 respectively. The agent prices were on average lower than the non-agent
prices by 14 percent for most breeds.
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