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Counties can deliver economic value from cotton, pyrethrum and oil crops
Cotton farm. The government has announced a 38 percent price increase in the purchase of cotton as it moves to entice more farmers to return to the crop. FILE PHOTO | POOL
Last week I watched a plenary engagement involving President William Ruto, governors and private sector representatives on among others reviving cotton, pyrethrum, and oil crops to generate jobs, and catalyse industrialisation, exports, and imports substitution.
The forum was timely as the government implements its manifesto and first budgetary cycle.