Most youth consider Agricultural production as a poor mans job. Two years ago, i worked as a farm manager. My greatest headache was to find suitable youth to employ for various production activities.

In the locality where i worked, youths would leave high potential land to go to work as bodaboda riders or matatu touts or just play Ajua in the market centers.

The youths who were available could not concentrate on the work, they were always demanding for more money!

In the area, there was a shortage of milk, vegetables, eggs, maize, fruits yet nobody was willing to invest in these areas. Whenever it rains in Kenya, this is the first area to receive rainfaill.

Huge farms amounting up over 10 acres were left to old feeble parents to cultivate.

Furthermore many young girls around the area had dropped out of school and were having babies if not, pregnant; to compound the matter-single and searching desperately.

How can we expect our country to translate to middle income status if this is the persisting scenario?

Hey Wazuans out there- Say something!

@Haron,
And which area is this I go lease/buy some land to farm?

talk to the youth..you will help them a lot and transform this great country.

I agree, most youth take social networking lane too far 'just having fun'. It would be better if such forums were used to create business opportunities and sharing learning experiences to improve life.
Let he who has an ear, hear!

Grumpy old wazuans...

Is there a school or institution that can train people how to farm, like Amiram? Provide a list here...

Baraka College...and please refrain from calling us grumpy

@ Mukiri, it all depends on what you want to focus on. The key consideration in Agriculture (like any other competitive business)is to differentiate yourself and benefit from scale economies (or substitute scale economies with mechanization/technology). An area as dry as Kibwezi (Makindu area on Mombasa road) is now famous with Asians who produce for local market and export yet land there is as low as 50k per acre. There are many possibilities once you decide on getting dirty. On the other side, you got to love it to excel.