Support Farmers and Programmes with Better Data

Kenya has approximately 7.5 million smallholder farming households, most of them operating within county jurisdictions responsible for agricultural extension, input distribution, and livestock services. The county agriculture department is the primary government contact point for these farmers — and the quality of county agricultural data determines how well national and county programmes are targeted and evidenced.

County agriculture budgets include allocations for input subsidies, veterinary programmes, and extension support. The Controller of Budget requires documentable, beneficiary-linked evidence for all input distribution — non-documentation is treated as an audit risk regardless of whether the inputs were physically delivered to farmers on the ground.

Livestock vaccination campaigns and disease surveillance operations require geo-tagged field records as a reporting condition to the Directorate of Veterinary Services. Counties that cannot produce location-linked vaccination records face programme funding risk from national government and donor-funded agricultural programmes that depend on county-level surveillance data.

CountyERP Agriculture & Livestock System connects ward-level extension activity to the county agriculture director's dashboard — tracking farmer registration, input distribution, veterinary service delivery, and field activity with the beneficiary-linked audit trail that COB reviews and conditional grant reporting require from every county.