PREMIUM Kenya to Import 25 million bags of maize Drought in Uasin Gishu and Trans Nzoia has pushed the government to turn to imports. Business Just now
Kenya is opening its market to private traders to import up to 25 million bags of maize, Agriculture and Livestock Development Cabinet Secretary Mutahi Kagwe told the Nation, a reversal that comes months after the government said the country had brought in a record 71 million bags the previous season.
Photo credit: Boniface Mwangi| Nation Media Group "What is emerging is that the maize harvest was much below the anticipated 70 million bags by the government.
Instead, drought in Uasin Gishu and Trans Nzoia, two of the country's key maize belts, has pushed the government to turn to imports to meet the roughly 70 to 75 million bags Kenya consumes annually.
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