Finance and Economic Planning > CFSP > 2014-15 FY CFSP > MEDIUM TERM EXPENDITURE FRAMEWORK

The county’s economy and livelihoods is driven by agriculture which include crop, livestock production and fisheries which is depended on by over 76% of county’s rural population. Agriculture also provides food and income to urban population through trade and if the full potential is harnessed well then the sector will turn around the socio-economic development of the county.

Challenges

Agricultural productivity is constrained by a number of factors such as high cost of inputs, poor livestock husbandry, overdependence on rain-fed agriculture, lack of markets and limited application of agricultural technology and innovation.

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Importance

Education equips citizens with understanding and knowledge that enables them to make informed choices about their lives and those facing the society, the sector will provide the skills required to steer the county to the economic and social goals of vision 2030.

Challenges

✍The quality of education and skills acquired by the youth is not in tandem with the vocational industrial requirements.

✍Poor infrastructure in most primary and secondary schools compounded with lack of electricity

✍Existing youth poldtechnics are not fully atilized. larly Childhood Ed cation (ECE) is also psorly established in the county ard requires urgent atxention, especially in infrastructure and teachers.