This is a perfect place for growing Pyrethrum, a cash crop that can be maintained with little resources.
The shield and lions stand on a silhouette of Mount Kenya containing in the foreground examples of Kenya agricultural produce - coffee, pyrethrum, sisal, tea, maize and pineapples.
In a survey on Pate Island in Kenya in 1956, 98 per cent of mosquitoes collected in houses using a pyrethrum spray catch were Skusea pembaensis.