Kenya's tracked agricultural income reached KSh 774B in 2023/24.
The Atlas tracks 21 active commodities across all 47 counties, building bottom-up from production volumes × farmgate prices. Total tracked income — KSh 774 billion — sits about KSh 84B above the KNBS Economic Survey's marketed-production figure of KSh 690B. The gap is informal trade, subsistence consumption, and unmeasured commodities. Both numbers are real.
Open the macro dashboardTea pulls the whole portfolio.
Tea (KSh 218B) sits comfortably above every other commodity. Maize is volume — the staple plate — but tea is value, the export anchor that almost single-handedly keeps Kenya's agricultural trade balance positive.
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Maize, tea, beans, Irish potatoes, coffee, horticulture and more — the full crop portfolio.
Cattle, dairy, poultry, sheep & goats — and the pastoralist economy on the dryland margins.
Agricultural exports, food import dependency, fertilizer import trends and the trade balance.
Production, ranked by commodity across all 47 counties — three Kenyas in one country.
Quarterly labour force data, rural vs urban employment, and smallholder farmer census.
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All briefs →Maize hit 47.6M bags in 2023 — the highest in five years
Production bounced back strongly from the 2022 drought low of 34.3M bags to 47.6M bags in 2023. The recovery tracks improved rainfall and the fertiliser subsidy programme that distributed inputs at below-market prices.
Horticulture overtook tea as the top export in 2024
For the first time since records began, horticulture export earnings (KSh 204B) exceeded tea (KSh 189B) in 2024. Vegetable and fruit exports — driven by avocado — are growing faster than the traditional export anchor.
Dairy milk production crossed 5 billion litres for the first time in 2024
Kenya's dairy sector produced 5.33 billion litres in 2024, up from 4.57B in 2023. The dairy cattle herd reached 5.95M head. The sector's value chain GDP reached KSh 352B.
The Fertilizer Subsidy Programme received KSh 10B in 2024 — the most ever
The programme topped the agriculture budget at KSh 10B, reflecting a policy bet that input subsidies can sustain the 2023 maize production bounce. The Maputo target of 10% of total government spending remains far off at 2.9%.
Unemployment peaked at 10.4% in Q2 2020, recovered to 4.9% by Q4 2022
Kenya's unemployment rate hit a COVID-era high of 10.4% in Q2 2020 before recovering steadily. By Q4 2022 it had fallen to 4.9%. Rural employment remains dominated by agriculture, with 7.5M smallholder farmers estimated.
Uasin Gishu leads maize production — Trans Nzoia close behind
In 2023, Uasin Gishu produced 476,538 MT of maize, narrowly ahead of Trans Nzoia's 448,011 MT. Together the two North Rift counties account for over 20% of national output. Their dominance reflects soil quality, altitude and decades of cooperative infrastructure.