So Sad. I weep for my motherland

Mwalimu-G

Elder Lister
the fabric used here to make garments for export is imported mainly from Asia because Kenya has no capacity to meet the demand for quality fabric
how can .ke have the capacity to provide fabric when it has been debating whether to adopt Bt cotton for more than ten years?
 

mzeiya

Elder Lister
For a country to thrive, agriculture is always given the first priority.
Not in this day and age. A nation ought to identify its biggest asset and focus on it while ensuring value addition. Kenya is blessed with all matter of raw wealth; how we utilize it is our blessing or curse. Case in point, we produce one of the World's best coffee and tea yet export it as is. To support my point, Qatar, Bahrain, and even Brunei, considered the World's wealthiest nations in terms of GDP per capita don't engage in agriculture.
 

mzeiya

Elder Lister
Agriculture?
Yes. Our economy is majorly reliant on agriculture.
My response to him was that you can't make a blanket statement on how nations ought to operate. To expound further, we are a tourism powerhouse but the earnings are meagre when you compare to other top African countries such as Morocco, SA, Botswana and Egypt. Why? We always market to mass markets that pay the bare minimum. Rwanda, with only gorillas and volcanos to show, are attracting high calibre tourists who spend 100x more than the average visitor here.
 

Ssabasajja

Elder Lister
There is no way we can compete with Asians in textiles, those guys' labor costs and other production expenses are very low.
 

Kamikaze

Lister
There is no way we can compete with Asians in textiles, those guys' labor costs and other production expenses are very low.
Not by chance but intentionally low. We can't be promising industrialization yet our electricity is expensive due to fuel levies, food security yet costs of input are high due to taxes. We are intentionally set to be a market for finished goods. We even export live animals to be slaughtered elsewhere
 

Ssabasajja

Elder Lister
Not by chance but intentionally low. We can't be promising industrialization yet our electricity is expensive due to fuel levies, food security yet costs of input are high due to taxes. We are intentionally set to be a market for finished goods. We even export live animals to be slaughtered elsewhere
Halafu pia an Asian's productivity is very high compared to an African.
 

Mwalimu-G

Elder Lister
There is no way we can compete with Asians in textiles, those guys' labor costs and other production expenses are very low.
Labor costs shouldn't be a factor considering EPZ pay minimum wage. Technology is our undoing seeing as we have to import it.
 

Anglututu

Elder Lister
Not in this day and age. A nation ought to identify its biggest asset and focus on it while ensuring value addition. Kenya is blessed with all matter of raw wealth; how we utilize it is our blessing or curse. Case in point, we produce one of the World's best coffee and tea yet export it as is. To support my point, Qatar, Bahrain, and even Brunei, considered the World's wealthiest nations in terms of GDP per capita don't engage in agriculture.
You may have a point but for kenya, agriculture is our main thing as we diversify into other areas.
Those countries mentioned apart from Brunei, are all deserts.
To destroy your point, those desert countries are making effort in the agri field, when it comes to dairy and daily consumption veggies. Alot is imported but alot is also grown local.
We on the other hand, have thrived on coffee, tea, flowers, cotton, pyrethrum, sisal, sugar, salt.... All in the past.
Our so called honorable people, destroyed these pillars of our economy.
 
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