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Abstract
Crop farming is a business enterprise for individuals who solely or partially rely on planting crops for their livelihood. Farmers as entrepreneurs in Kenya use their entrepreneurial traits to structure and sustain their enterprises to be successful. In this exploratory qualitative case study’ a questionnaire was designed to determine the factors limiting the crop production by farmers in Manga locale-Southwestern Kenya. The smallholder farmers’ results are discussed in this paper with the major theme being the recently enforced regulations set by distributors in fertilizer purchases. The study concludes with few suggestions that distributors can integrate in the place of the active manual inventory control systems. Cease of the imposed restrictions on fertilizer purchases would contribute to soil fertility thus ample food supply and minimal poverty level by smallholder farmers.