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Irony of 2.4m Kenyans facing starvation as grain farmers grapple with market hurdles
Harvesting season: A specialized combine harvester pours maize harvested from demonstration plots at a farm in Soy, Uasin Gishu County onto a truck on October 24, 2020. PHOTO | JARED NYATAYA | NMG
Ironically, more than 2.4 million Kenyans face acute starvation while cereal farmers in the North Rift region, the country’s food basket, are experiencing market challenges for their produce.
The farmers are staring at heavy losses due to the deteriorating prices of the cereals — maize and wheat — caused by the ongoing harvest of this season produce and the arrival of cheap imports from neighbouring countries under the East African Common Market Protocol.
