CFAO, through the Toyota Kenya Foundation, has partnered with The First Lady, Mama Rachel Ruto to train women and youth with tractor operations, agribusiness and leadership skills in 12 counties in 2025.
The Nakuru County edition was concluded Friday at the Nakuru Agricultural Training Centre, where 150 women and youth were trained and certified.
Despite Africa having the most unutilized agricultural potential in the world, we have a considerably low level of mechanization compared to the rest of the world.
Currently, between 50-85pc of farm work is done manually, using hand tools.
Mechanisation therefore is a key agenda in the success of agriculture, especially in achieving the desired productivity as envisioned in the Bottom-Up Economic Transformation Agenda (BETA).
The County Executive Committee member in charge of Agriculture, Livestock, Fisheries, and Cooperatives in Nakuru County, Leonard Bor, lauded the partnership as one that will boost the number of qualified agricultural talent pool in the county.
Arnold Kipchumba, the Director of Environment and Climate Action in Mama Doing Good highlighted the training as one that recognises the critical labour that women and youth provide in the agricultural sector and the need for knowledge-driven Agricultural productivity in the Nation.
