Livestock farming constitutes a larger percentage of the county’s economy with 60% of the population practicing pure pastoralism and 30% percent practicing agro pastoralism. The county’s department of agriculture has lived up to its commitment of creating a food secure environment through the empowerment of local farmers to increase yields. Mega Irrigation farm schemes have been earmarked for cultivation at the Kurungu and Arsim areas in the arid Samburu north Sub County. The department has also bought 29 tractors for cultivation to empower crop farmers. So far, over 20,000 acres of land have been cultivated since the tractors distribution increasing the number of maize bags harvested from 50,000 bags to 180,000 bags. Livestock farmers have also been empowered with the provision of high yield cattle, goat and camel breeds. Livestock disease control has also been stepped up with the vaccination of over 1.3 million livestock against the FMD,LSD, SGP,CCPP and PPR diseases