The Ministry of Agriculture, in collaboration with the private sector, has launched Kenya's first fertiliser insurance programme, aimed at safeguarding smallholder farmers against climate-related risks and enhancing agricultural resilience.
Speaking on behalf of Principal Secretary (PS) Dr Paul Kipronoh Ronoh, Tom Dienya, Director of Agricultural Data and Statistics, emphasised the role of data in transforming subsidy delivery and insurance efficiency. "We now have a complete digital database of registered farmers.
This enables transparency and ensures that services such as financing and insurance reach the right people," he noted.
Dienya emphasised that this is not just a policy experiment but an important shift in agricultural support strategy. "We are not only digitising input delivery but embedding resilience into every step of the process.
