Six million farmers have so far been registered on the e-voucher platform by the government as full roll of the system continues.
In it’s mid-term review, the government says the rollout of the e-voucher system is key to the fertilizer subsidy programme that it says has increased maize production by 39pc and reduced imports by 67pc in the last two years.
The government has been keen on policies that increase agricultural production to reduce the food import bill.
The government says it anchored it fertilizer subsidy programme on farmers registration exercise to targeted intervention.
Already 6.58 million farmers have been registered under the Kenya Integrated Agriculture Management System with 53.6 million e-vouchers issued to farmers.
The fertilizer subsidy program has helped increase maize production from 61.7 million 50 kg bags in 2022 to 85.7 million bags in 2025.
To protect farmers from fluctuating farm prices, the government has extended settings minimum buying prices from tea to five other value chains, with the latest crop being wheat that was set at Ksh 5,300 per 90 kg bag.
Increased support for cash crops has seen the acreage under coffee rise to 115,500 hectares from 109,385 hectares in 2022.
49,000 coffee seedlings were distributed in the counties of Nandi, Trans Nzoia, Kericho, and Kisumu.
On value addition the tea was among the value chain that has undergone policy reforms. The last two years has also seen a 189.7pc increase in the value of Value Added tea from Ksh 3.5 billion to Ksh 10.14 billion as capacity for MSMEs in speciality tea was enhanced.
Plans are underway to increase tea incubation centres to train MSMEs on specialty tea production and value addition.
