What Kitui’s Agribusiness Prices Actually Show
Put Kitui’s tracked commodity and livestock prices side by side and a pattern emerges that a single price point never…
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Agribusiness Index
Every recorded price, one dot each. The vertical axis uses a logarithmic scale so a KES 100/kg crop and an KES 85,000 head of cattle are both readable on the same chart.
Key
- Sorghum
- Finger millet
- Honey (crude)
- Pigeon peas (Mbaazi)
- Cotton (seed cotton)
- Goats (adult, mixed)
- Cattle (cows and bulls)
- Mangoes (exotic varieties)
- Mangoes (local varieties)
- Maize
- Green grams (Ndengu)
| Commodity | Market | Price | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Green grams (Ndengu) | Kitui County guaranteed farmgate price | KES 100 / per kg | 1 Mar 2026 |
| Green grams (Ndengu) | Kitui retail/wholesale market | KES 165 / per kg (retail 150-180 range, midpoint shown) | 1 Mar 2026 |
| Green grams (Ndengu) | Kabati Market | KES 80 / per kg (KES 7,200 per 90kg bag) | 15 Jan 2026 |
| Maize | Kalundu Market | KES 50 / per kg (KES 4,500 per 90kg bag) | 1 Jan 2026 |
| Maize | Tseikuru Market | KES 61 / per kg (KES 5,500 per 90kg bag) | 1 Jan 2026 |
| Mangoes (exotic varieties) | Kitui County (farm-gate average) | KES 33 / per kg (study mean: KES 32.74) | 1 Jul 2025 |
| Mangoes (local varieties) | Kitui County (farm-gate average) | KES 23 / per kg (study mean: KES 22.83) | 1 Jul 2025 |
| Goats (adult, mixed) | Tseikuru Livestock Market | KES 16,000 / per head (range KES 10,000-22,000, midpoint shown) | 15 Apr 2025 |
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