For the past decades, because of growth of other sectors, Agriculture’s contribution to Kenya’s GDP has dropped from 38.4% in 1963 to 30% in 1990 and 29% in 1997.
The fact that 75-80% of Kenya’s employed population is in Agriculture sector shows that Agriculture still plays a great role in Kenya’s economy.
Half of the income realised from the exports is accounted for by this sector.
It’s such as amazement for Agriculture to provide half of the export income yet 3/5 of Kenya’s land is not productive.

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.