The study noted that, small-scale farmers are placed at the centre of almost all agricultural policies and strategies, ranging from the Vision 2025 to the National Strategy for economic Growth and Reduction of Poverty (NSGRP) or in Kiswahili, MKUKUTA and individual policies and projects. Statements such a ensuring food self-sufficiency and food security; transformation from subsistence to commercial agriculture; improved structure, conduct and the performance of agricultural marketing systems; producer empowerment and market linkages and improved rural marketing infrastructure development; reducing income poverty; improve standards of living in the rural areas; supplying raw materials, improving production, marketing and processing technologies; introducing new technologies in order to increase productivity of labour and land; etc are spotted in the government policy and strategy documents.