| dc.description.abstract | The agricultural farm inputs subsidy policy is a policy instrument that outlines the goals, the
objectives, the methodology and the justification with the resultant outputs and impacts of the
program designed to start in year 2022 up to year 2032. The program is aimed at cushioning
farmers through farm inputs subsidy, in the mango and dairy value chains, delivering produce
to contracted processers and up takers of raw materials. This is meant to be an improvement to
the previous subsidy program where the County Government used to do bulk procurement of
specific farm inputs that were non targeted and which has generated a number of lessons to
improve on. The agricultural farm inputs subsidy program shall use a mobile based approach
where farmers shall receive cash instead of physical farm inputs to offer flexibility in decisions
making most ideal to their production options.
The overall goal is to ensure adequate use of agricultural inputs which has been identified as
one way of enhancing agricultural productivity. Agricultural input subsidies aim to make inputs
available to users at below market costs as a way of incentivizing adoption, increasing
agricultural productivity and profitability, increasing food availability and access and
ultimately reducing poverty and stimulating economic growth. The logic behind the proposed
subsidy is premised on the fact that farm inputs use among small scale producers is low due to
inflationary factors beyond their control and ends up leading them to a poverty cycle. The
objectives of this program which shall be carried out through an electronic voucher system on a
mobile based platform are; To provide for capacity building of the agricultural farm inputs
subsidy beneficiaries and process implementers; To facilitate transfer of farm inputs subsidy to
farmers/ from physical procurement and delivery of inputs to an electronic mode in form of evoucher,
cash transfers and to ring-fence the farmer subsidies to only the targeted farm inputs
and services through an integrated IT mobile based system. | en |
