The rise and rise of agriculture: once upon a time, agriculture was a dying sector of Kenya's economy. Now no more. For the past few years, it has been the wheel behind the country's economic turnaround, reports Wanjohi Kabukuru.

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The rise and rise of agriculture: once upon a time, agriculture was a dying sector of Kenya's economy. Now no more. For the past few years, it has been the wheel behind the country's economic turnaround, reports Wanjohi Kabukuru.

While campaigning for the presidency in late 2002, President Mwai Kibaki had to use layman's economic terms to explain to a local radio interviewer why Kenya was an agricultural economy. The interviewer would not budge. His "critical questions" chided the country for not jumping onto the industrialised nations' bandwagon.

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Kibaki went back to basics to educate not only the interviewer but the radio station's audience on why agriculture was the backbone of Kenya'...

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