The number of smallholders is decreasing

More and more organizations appear as land users in the statistics of the Central Statistical Office (KSH). Mainly due to regulatory legal reasons, but the proportion of the land area they are farming on is decreasing year by year.

However, in the case of private farms, an increase in agricultural land can be observed: the total area used by them increased by 7.7 percent, but the number of private farms decreased by close to 90 thousand (12 percent) in 2016, compared to the data of three years before. ( by our colleague)