Impact of Currency Exchange Rate on Agricultural Exports in Kenya

Abstract

Agricultural exports play a pivotal role in Kenya's economic landscape. Kenya’s Vision 2030 highlighted agriculture as one of the key economic pillars that will spur its achievement. However, there has been reduced profitability and an increased uncertainty of producing for export, leading to poor performance of Kenya’s agricultural exports. It is against this background that this study examined the impact of currency exchange rate and agricultural exports in Kenya from 1982 to 2022. The study was anchored on the purchasing power parity theory, using the causal research design. OLS regression results indicated a significant positive effect of currency exchange rate on agricultural export performance at a 5% significance level. The study recommends that the government adopts policies that maintain a competitive exchange rates to boost the agricultural export performance in Kenya.