PREMIUM Turning Kenya’s beef and fisheries into engines of industrial growth Kenya can unlock more jobs, incomes and exports by transforming livestock and fish into higher value products. Seeds of Gold 8 min ago

If Kenya makes this shift, pastoral lands, lakes, rivers, coastal waters, fish farms, abattoirs, landing sites, factories, laboratories, trucks, cold rooms, digital services and retail shelves will become part of one integrated economic system.

Moving from commodity trading to industrial value creation requires capital for cold rooms, boats, cages, ponds, feed mills, abattoirs, processing machinery, packaging lines, vehicles, quality laboratories and working capital.

Kenya’s livestock and fisheries economy must therefore move from selling live animals, carcasses, fresh fish and informal market products towards more sophisticated goods and services for domestic, regional and global markets.