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Ahero is a town close to the city of Kisumu, the third largest city in Kenya and the second largest city, after Kampala, in the Lake Victoria Basin. [1] It is an agricultural town in Kenya that is part of Kisumu County. [2] The town has a retail market serving as the main trading center for food and goods coming from Kisii, Homabay, and Nandi. [2]
Sugar cane farm along Muhoroni road. Muhoroni is a town in Kisumu County, Kenya. Muhoroni hosts a town council. It had an urban population of 13,664 and a total population of 31,148 (1999 census [permanent dead link ]). Muhoroni has a railway station along the Nairobi-Kisumu Railway. The town is located 50 kilometres east of Kisumu.
The List of counties of Kenya by Gross County Product (GCP) shows the economic output of counties in Kenya. It is calculated by the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics (KNBS), which aggregates the value of all goods and services produced within a county during a specific period. GCP is an essential indicator for assessing the economic ...
Kisumu County is located in western Kenya, far from the nation’s capital. (To the southwest, in neighboring Siaya County, lies the village of Nyang’oma Kogelo , birthplace of Barack Obama Sr. ) The city of Kisumu, on the shores of Lake Victoria, has historically functioned as a major center of Western Kenya commerce.
Farming is the most important economic sector in Kenya, [4] although less than 8 percent of the land is used for crop and feed production, and less than 20 percent is suitable for cultivation. Kenya is a leading producer of tea [ 5 ] and coffee, [ 6 ] as well as the third-leading exporter of fresh produce, such as cabbages, onions and mangoes.
The public debt level was 51% of GDP in 2019. [78] In 2021, Kenya's debt had risen to an absolute amount of US$65B against a GDP of US$101B.The public debt level was 65% of GDP in 2021. [79] [80] Kenya's largest bilateral lender since 2011 has been China, and the largest multilateral lender since 1963 has been the World Bank. [81]
The Galana Kulalu Project is a US$52,670,000 project by the government of Kenya in partnership with the private sector aimed at providing Food Security. [1] The National Irrigation Authority is the implementing agency. On completion the scheme is set to be the biggest in east and southern Africa and a major milestone for Kenya in attaining food ...
Inhabitants of Kibigori, a cosmopolitan town, includes many communities from Kenya such as the Nandi, Luhya, Kisii with the majority being Luos. The town is also home to Nubians who settled there as Kibigori was a settlement scheme. The communities engage in sugar cane large scale farming and small scale farming of other food crops.