Kenya Broadcasting Corporation:: "President Mwai Kibaki on Saturday officially launched the Kenya Agricultural Sector Development Strategy and witnessed the signing of the Comprehensive African Agricultural Development Programme (CAADP).
Following the signing of CAADP by minister for finance Mr. Uhuru Kenyatta on behalf of the government, Kenya can now access major funding from the World Bank for agricultural development in the country.
President Kibaki said the government has developed Agricultural Sector Development Strategy 2012 to guide the growth of the country's agricultural sector in line with CAADP.
'The strategy's overall objective is to achieve an agricultural growth of 7 per cent per year over the next 5 years. It aims at positioning the agricultural sector strategically as a key driver for sustained economic growth,'"
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