Karibu Kenya

When the policy of reserving land for white settlers was legally ended in 1959, much desirable farmland was transferred to Africans. Today Kenya recognizes three broad types of land tenure: government land, trust land, and private or freehold land. .
             Kenya is only able to supply about 70% of its demand for wheat; an increasing demand for bread, especially in urban areas, has put strain on the country's economy since the cultivation of wheat has an 80% foreign 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 tea than any country in the world except India and China. Coffee continues to be an important export, though relatively less land (about 3%) is used to cultivate it. Kenya's ability to export coffee was long limited by an export quota system. When this system was abandoned in July 1989 and control over the production and marketing of coffee taken away from the Coffee Board of Kenya (CBK) in October 1992, Kenya greatly increased coffee sales. The coffee industry is now liberalized in several ways. .
             Kenya ranks second in the world in the production of sisal and fourth in the export of cut flowers. The country supplies almost 70% of global demand for pyrethrum. Other agricultural exports include cashew nuts, fruits and vegetables. Agricultural goods are now Kenya's third largest merchandise export. Beef and dairy cattle are also important to Kenya's agricultural economy. Kenya has one of the most developed dairy industries in Sub-Saharan Africa, with an annual milk production of some 2 billion liters. The fishing industry handled 121,984 tons of fish in 1987, mostly fresh water fish caught in Lake Victoria. .
             Before the turn of the twentieth century, Kenya was mainly inhabited by the African peoples and its economy was almost entirely at a subsistence level.