Importance of crop farming

Crop farming is an important economic activity in Countries such as Kenya and Uganda. This refers to both large and small scale farming. Large scale farming is practiced mostly for cash and thus referred to cash crop. Examples of cash crop in Kenya are Coffee tea pyrethrum and even maize in places such as Kit ale

Large scale farming is an activity practiced in large farms. This activity is s o important to the entire community because of the employment it creates to the people.Example to this is the tea farm in Kericho.In this factory most Kenyans are employed permanently and others are employed temporarily. This type of farming also needs one to have big capital in order to practice it.

Other farmers practice small scale farming .This needs small amount of capital, it creates self employment. It is a source of food example is potatoes and grains such as maize, beans, peace etc.This activity needs small piece of land thus small number of workers is needed compared to large scale farming that require a lot of employees.

Crops can also be practiced in irrigation schemes. This refers to a piece of land where crops are grown by irrigation method.Irrigation is practiced mostly in dry areas or in the absence of rains. Perkera irrigation Scheme at Margate division in Kiribati District is a farm where onions is grown by flood irrigation .There are other methods of irrigation as overhead ,drip ,sprinkle ,by watering can and others.

By: Koech.