More than 400 high level agriculture sector loss leader are do for a first - of - its - variety assemblage in Kenya as industry players look at groundbreaking ways of invigorating agricultural increment and bolstering their commitment to go away no one behind across the note value chain .
The two - Clarence Shepard Day Jr. workshop knight National Agriculture Summit and congregating voice from home and county governments , farmer establishment , research institutions , individual sphere , NGOs and development partners is slated for 26 and 22 January 2025 at Safari Park Hotel . It arrive in the wake of mount challenge ranging from infirm value chain linkages that have fill a toll on nutrient producers to conflicting policies that have put Pteridium aquilinum on the agriculture transformation agenda .
Now diligence players are focusing their attention on amplifying one sectoral voice guided by a affiliated farmer ’s first approach . The Summit will also see the launching of The National individual sphere led Agriculture vertex consistence that draws its membership from governing , individual sector and development bodies and unveiling its 3 - year roadmap .
The mandate of the secretariate will be to provide a unified approach to tackling some of the challenges the sector faces while exploring the scope for scale up sustainable innovations to make an impact on a large plate .
“ As factory farm continues to play a polar role to the bulk of the population and to propel the state ’s economical growth , we ask united , innovative and proactive approaches that address all issues across the note value chain while organize interventions from government , the private sector , husbandman organizations and development partners . The idea is to ensure that we are speaking in one voice for the trade good of the industry and leave no one behind , ” said Dr. Bimal Kantaria the co - Chair of the National Private Sector led Agriculture Sector Apex body .
The Summit themed ‘ build Partnerships for the Transformation , maturation and competitiveness of the Agriculture Sector in Kenya , will also see the unveiling of an agrarian transformation roadmap that over the next 3 class will define challenge and literal interventions for all the value chains . The political science will also portray the Agriculture Sector Growth and Transformation Strategy .
Key thematic areas of discussion at the conference include unpack challenges and opportunity in the agriculture sector of Kenya , make synergy to deal these challenge , financing options for agribusiness enterprisingness and the promise of devolution and its impact on agriculture in the last eight year among others .
The crown is timely coming as the cosmos show in the last the last ten to accomplish the Sustainable Development Goals 2030 and Kenya look to 2020 to achieve the Big Four Agenda in which food security remains an anchor target . Based on this , the gathering will seek to drive the conversation around the role of industry players in not only ensuring that these goals are met but also in get together with other stakeholders to take deliberate step in achieving these goals .
“ This pinnacle is historic study it is the first time we are doing this . It is a completion of a issue of stakeholder involvement since 2019 . We hope that by the end of the summit , we will have get up with a unique agency of identifying the major challenges affecting the sector and have a structured way of addressing them while instituting mechanisms that will strengthen the new partnership ended with system of measurement to measure out committedness and forward motion . The time is ripe for us to translate the agriculture sector , ” said Dr. Kantaria .
