For thousands of years, agriculture has played an important role in everyday life. Before agriculture, hunting and gathering enabled humans to survive. It wasn’t until the transition to the planned sowing and harvesting of crops that humans began to thrive. Humans developed tools and practices to improve agricultural output with more efficient means of sustaining themselves. From there, innovations that created industries led to the modern era.
Today, the importance of agriculture in everyday life can’t be minimized. Without the agriculture sector, activities such as getting dressed for work and cleaning the home wouldn’t be possible.
GDP and employment | Kenya | Uganda | Tanzania | Ethiopia |
---|---|---|---|---|
GDP in Billions USD (2012) | 37.3 | 19.9 | 28.3 | 43.1 |
Contribution to GDP by the sector in 2012(%) Agriculture |
29.3 | 23 | 28 | 46.6 |
Agricultural workforce employment3 (%) | 61.10 | 65.6 | 76.5 | 79.3 |