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Agriculture provides Kenya with one-third of its Gross Domestic Product. Kenyan farmers grow among other cash crops tea, coffee, sisal, rice, wheat, sugar cane, and cashew nuts. These are packaged for domestic use as well as purchased by commodities markets overseas.
The tourism sector also plays a major part in Kenya's economy by creating far more jobs, directly and indirectly, compared to any sector; tourism is also an industry leader in the exchange of foreign currency.
Kenya also has several manufacturing and processing plants that produce vehicles, foods, textiles, chemicals, cement, steel, paper, refined oil, tobacco, and rubber.
Kenya is blessed with the best-developed deep-sea harbor port on the East African coast. The harbor called Kilindini Port is located on the Island of Mombasa. Most goods that flow into neighboring land locked countries like Uganda, Rwanda, and Burundi pass through Kilindini Port, which are transported by road and rail. The port of Mombasa includes Kilindini Harbor, Port Reitz, the "Old Port", Port Tudor, and the whole of the tidal waters encircling Mombasa Island. The port is limited on the seaward side by a line drawn from Ras Mkung'ombe to a point on the shore of the mainland half a nautical mile south of Ras Mwakisenge. Ras Mkung'ombe and Ras Mwakisenge are breakwaters, which naturally make the Kilindini Harbor waters very calm.
Kenya also has several mining sites, which are mostly owned by international companies.
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