What you mean they cook their books? Like eating them
It's a figure of expression, it's means they use accounting tricks to make it look more profitable.
Cook the books is a slang term for using accounting tricks to make a company's financial results look better than they really are. Typically, cooking the books involves manipulating financial data to inflate a company's revenue, deflate expenses, and pump up profit.
I think Kenya's GDP numbers and agricultural output are more accurate.
@Rayaale i don't think they cook their books to the same level as Ethiopia and it has other productive sectors that bring in revenue so they don't have to rely on inflating agricultural production numbers.
But there was a massive scandal around fake fertilizers and seeds.