Of the 63800Km of the roads, 8868Km are paved. 2652Km is what the railroad network comprises.

Lamu and Kisumu, with Kisumu in Lake Victoria, are the 2nd in importance to Port Mombasa, having a petroleum refining plant.

Indigenous/subsistence and industrial or colonial farming are the two distinctive divisions in which Kenya’s agriculture can be classified.
The heritage of the vast colonial plantations are grown largely, is represented by Colonial or Industrial farming.
The major grown crops for exports are coffee with 53400 tons and tea with 294200 tons in 1998.

Such crops like corn, a basic local food. Fruit, manioc, sorghum and beans are the traditional crops on which local owners in small plots performing indigenous farming have been based.
The co-operative movement has however expanded over the past years.
This has been possible due to increase in productivity, because of improvement in technology and adoption of new formerly monopolized crops by vast plantations. This expansion was put in place with the intention that the whole sugar cane production, 2/3 of the coffee crops and half of the tea crops corresponded to small local farmers at the end of 1990.

Kenya is however experiencing an irregular climatology, which affects crops on a serious note. Infrastructure and some crops were greatly damaged by the El Nino rains in 1998 and the sector in It’s whole was harmed by the subsequent La Nina droughts.

Kenya’s livestock like agriculture is divided into two types namely; substance made up to small local owners and industrial made up of large colonial estates.
Ti Kenya, bovine and onvine are the basis of cattle raising.
The most important goods to the normad tribes in Kenya are their cattle because they perform subsistence cattle raising.
The vast European states are the ones to which the largest productions of diary products, wool, meat, leather and milk correspond. The other part of this production is exported to other nations.

Beverages, construction materials like cement, glass and clay, pharmaceutical products, metals, food which includes crop processing and canning, leather, chemicals, petroleum derivatives, tobacco, textiles, motorcar assembly and rubber, are the main industries found in Kenya.
Other goods like soap, furniture, batteries and plastics which are basically for consumption, are also manufactured.

A sub-sector crafting products on small scale, which was put in place due to high unemployment rates, known as Jua kali. Has been promoted to development over the past years by the government.
Machines and tools, furniture, steel frames for doors and windows, coal stoves and crates, are a range of some of the products that are crafted by these small workshops.

Most of Kenya’s energy mainly Petroleum, is imported from countries like Saudi Arabia of the United Arab Emirates because of scarcity of energy resources in Kenya. However, there was a fall in the imported energy from 75% to 56.6%.
Coal, hydroelectric plants (81.63%) and petroleum (10.5%) are the major sources of energy.
Within the Seven Fork Hydro Project Frame in the Tana river (Kindaruma dam, 1968), and in the Turkwel River gorge in Lake Turkana, particularly, is where the major hydroelectric plants of Kenya are situated.
In as much as there are main hydroelectric plants in Kenya, Industrial production is still hindered by the scarcity and irregularity of the hydroelectric energy.

Goldmines at Kakamega, extraction of soda and salt from natural deposits at Lake Magadi and Lead and Silver mines at Kinangoni, together with Flourite beds North of Nairobi, represent the mining sector in Kenya. A mineral processing plant is found at Kilfi.
Each year 100000 tons of soda are extracted and a vast part of it is then exported.
The mining sector in it’s fullness, minimumly contributes to the GDP of Kenya.

Basics:
The reduction of the public sector through selling off state industries and rationalising public services, the decrease in import barriers and the suppression of control for foreign exchange, are 3 factors which are included in the economic reform plan which has been developed by the Government in addition to a Liberalisation, since 1993.

The growth of Kenya’s economy, which has relieved then negative results partly, in the early 1990’s has been made possible by reforms supported by donors like International Monetary Fund (IMF), World Bank and others.

With a moderate inflation, the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) grew at 5% and 4% in the  years 1995 and 1996 respectively.
As the years go by, the inflation rate fluctuates to a large extent. This is observed in the years 1991, 1992, 199, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997 and 1998, where GDP was growing respectively at 19.6%, 27.5%, 46%, 28%, 1.6%, 9%, 11.2% and 6.6%.

Because of a crisis in Agriculture and tourism in 1997 to 1998, Kenya’s Economic growth slowed down.
Certain crops were wrecked and as well infrastructures were damaged by the Torrential El Nino rains which affected Agriculture in 1997 to 1998, yet the increase in crime rate, terrorist violence (bombing of the US Embassy in1998) together with Ethnic riots, contributed a lot towards scaring the tourists away.

A lapse in the Enhanced structural Adjustment Program was allowed by the International Monetary Fund because of failure in reform condition implementation and fighting against corruption in the public sector, by government.

Power shortage, endemic corruption, unemployment which affected 50% of the active population in 1998, the prolonged and inefficient control on the key sectors by the government, the High population growth rate which only reduced in 1999 from 4% to 1.59% and the negative commercial balance, whereby $ 6450 million was the eternal debt in 1997, are the factors that constitute the main problems faced by the Economy of Kenya, today.

42% of Kenya’s population was below the poverty line in 1992. In 1995, $ 642.8 million of the external economic aid was gladly received by Kenya.