Cabinet Secretary for The National Treasury and Economic Planning, John Mbadi, has unveiled a Sh4.29 trillion government Budget for the 2025/26 Financial Year.
While presenting the Budget Policy highlights and revenue-raising measures for the Financial Year 2025/26 at the National Assembly Chambers, Mbadi said the Budget focuses on stimulating economic recovery and creating jobs under the Bottom-Up Economic Transformation Agenda (BETA).
Looking at Agriculture, the CS proposed an allocation of Sh47.6 billion for various programmes under the sector.
Sh8 billion has been earmarked for the Fertiliser Subsidy Programme, Sh10.2 billion for the National Agricultural Value Chain Development Project, Sh800 million for the Small Scale Irrigation and Value Addition Project, Sh1.2 billion for Food Security and Crop Diversification Project and Sh5.8 billion for the Food Systems Resilience Project. "The Government will continue to transform the sector by increasing productivity in key value chains, such as fisheries and aquaculture, horticulture, food crops, livestock and rangeland development," he said.
