... exchange content compared with 50% for maize. Millet, cassava, and sorghum are also important crops. Tea has emerged as Kenya's most important cash crop after a decades-long competition with coffee; its primacy has largely been the result of improved production by small farmers. Kenya now produces more ... colonial government then introduced a head tax that was payable by all African household heads. Since the African peoples were not allowed to engage in cash crop farming, to pay this tax they had perforce to seek wage employment. Another notable development during this period was the e...

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