President Uhuru Kenyatta. [Photo/PSCU]President Uhuru Kenyatta has pledged to spend his last term in office focusing on value addition of cash crops.
Uhuru said his government wants to boost earnings that come from the produce.
"We are working out the value addition strategy that will also come up with job creation through cottage industries, where youths will be engaged on a full-time basis as we move towards the reduction of unemployment in our country,” he said.
He was speaking at the Thiba Dam site in Kabare ward, Kirinyaga County, yesterday when he commissioned a Sh19 billion project.
He said his administration would work with all county governments to make his dream a reality. Uhuru said the national and county governments were not in any competition against each other because they derived their funding from State coffers.
The first step, he said, would be to address the plight of the coffee, tea, rice and milk sectors.