The Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA) in partnership with the European Union and the Kenya government has rolled out Sh5.692 billion ($39,949,466.50) food security programme to support agriculture in Kenya.
The programme dubbed Agriculture Sector Development Support Programme (ASDSP) which was designed by the Ministry of Agriculture and the 47 county governments to address food security, nutrition and manufacturing will benefit the all the devolved units.
According to the initiators, each county or devolved unit is supposed to identify three priority areas for value addition.
Swedish Ambassador to Kenya Caroline Vicini stated that Sweden is dedicated to cooperating with the Ministry of Agriculture and the Kenyan government to promote the agricultural industry and guarantee food security in the nation.
“Sweden has been supporting Kenyan agriculture since independence that is now close to 60 years and we continue to support Kenyan agriculture to enable farmers to know Transparent and true information,” said Vicini.
Kenya Integrated Agriculture Management Information System (KIAMIS)
Early this year, Kenya received a grant of 5.2 million US Dollars from the Swedish government in efforts to establish the Kenya Integrated Agriculture Management Information System (KIAMIS) and enhance the agriculture sector.
This was to help organize agriculture system in the proper way to enable the Ministry of Agriculture achieve its main objective of giving information and support to farmers.
KIAMIS is an integrated, digital platform solution that now supports farmer registration and e-voucher subsidy program in line with the Government’s digitization agenda under the 10-year Agricultural Sector Growth and Transformation Strategy.
In the new programme, already some counties have identified their priority areas for value addition.
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