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Introduction

Agriculture Farming is a growing economy in the region, including fruits, vegetables, grain, and other cash crops such as coconut and cashew. While the cash crop industry is blooming, opportunities for manufacturing herbal teas and essential oils remain to be exploited and cross-regional trade is expected to develop further with the improvement of the Lamu-Malindi Road. 

The County is endowed with vast agricultural opportunities which include: big tracks of land which can be used for agricultural production, highly experienced staff that will help in providing extension services strategically to trigger growth in agriculture, highly enterprising society of herders and farmers, ready market for agricultural products, completion of LAPSSET will enable ease of export of agricultural products this will make Lamu have comparative economic advantage in export over other counties in Kenya, vast irrigation potential in the Tana basins, Lake Kenyatta and Lake MOA areas, value addition potential of crops such as cashew nut, coconut, fruits and vegetables remains largely untapped, vast opportunities are opening up in the production of biofuels from sugar cane, maize, millet, sorghum, jatropha and other oil-bearing seeds.