Nairobi, Feb. 14 -- The Agriculture and Livestock Ministry has opened up 21,000 acres of idle land belonging to the National Youth Service (NYS) and Tana and Athi Rivers Development Authority (Tarda) for commercial leases in a bid to boost food security.

The ministry said the leases would be part of its land commercialisation initiative (LCI), which targets to lease up to 500,000 acres of idle pieces and attract at least Sh65 billion in agricultural investments.

"The government of Kenya seeks interested and qualified commercial agribusinesses and investors with demonstrated technical and financial capacity to undertake farming, (agri-)forestry, and other agriculture-related activities on land sites identified under the LCI," the ministr...