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Challenges facing Kenya’s agricultural sector:
a) The 1984 drought and famine in various parts of the country occasioning supply of relief food to the affected regions.
b) Rapid increase in population which is not at pace with the rate of increase in agricultural production.
c) From the late 1970s, the world market prices of agricultural commodities fell drastically yet the inputs remained expensive.
d) Corruption and mismanagement of the cooperatives leading to meager earnings for key cash crops in Kenya.
e) Grabbing of research land by corrupt government officials has affected the operations of the research institutes.