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AGRO-TOURISM

Agro-tourism is a novel concept offering a tourist hands-on experience of day-to-day real life activities of the local farmers. Tourists are invited to experience rural Africa life through guided tours, workshops and where available, hosted community-based accommodation.  The tourist gets the opportunity to meet and interact with local people and be part of their unique lifestyle and culture, if only for a day or two.  Activities may include planting, tilling, harvesting, taking the harvest to factories or markets and seeing the various stages of the processing. 

Other activities may include escorted village walks, talks on the areas flora and fauna, history and culture.  Sampling and cooking traditional foods, traditional dancing as well as arts and crafts making may also be included as would be visits to local highlights such as waterfalls, hilltops and riverbanks.  In Many areas of Kenya, particularly Central Highlands, Rift Valley and Western Province are rich in agriculture both of cash and subsistence food crops. 

Depending on altitude, climate, type of soil and rainfall distribution, cash crops in various areas include coffee, tea, wheat, pyrethrum and rice.   Horticulture has also gained popularity with fruits such as passion, oranges, avocado, pineapple, mango, banana, apple, melon – and flowers such as roses, carnations being exported to Europe. Dairy farming of cows, goats, sheep and pigs as well as poultry farming (chicken and to lesser extent geese and turkey) is also practised.  Food crops, usually for subsistence but to some extent also as food crops, include maize, beans, peas, potatoes, carrots, onions, garlic, ginger, vegetables (such as kale ‘sukuma wiki’, spinach, cabbage, cucumber, tomato).

Cash crops and horticulture are usually for medium to small-scale farms while food crops and poultry farming are almost always for small-scale farms, on average of one to 5 acres per family. In the densely populated areas, dairy farming is on small-scale ‘zero-grazing’ usually consisting of one to three animals per family while in the sparsely populated semi-arid and arid areas of northern, eastern and north-western areas of Kenya, nomadic pastoralists keep large numbers of cows, goats, sheep, donkeys.  Camels are found in the arid areas to the north and north-east.