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Basic statistics on agriculture:
- Economic mainstay of a vast majority of rural population
- Major source of employment – 60% for direct and indirect
- Huge potentials remain un-utilized – irrigation, processing, mechanization and value addition, marketing etc.
- Highly vulnerable to climate variability and change.
- Youth unemployment in Kenya has risen to 22.2 per cent, significantly higher than in neighboring Tanzania, Uganda and Ethiopia.
- The latest United Nations Human Development report reveals that as at the end of last year, youth unemployment in Tanzania stood at 5.2 per cent and 4.0 per cent in Uganda.
- In Rwanda and Burundi, the unemployment rate was at 3.3 per cent and 3.1 per cent respectively.
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