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Data cast doubt on success of Kenya’s fertiliser subsidy
Workers arrange bags of subsidised fertilizer at the National Cereals and Produce Board depot in Elburgon, Nakuru County. FILE PHOTO | JOHN NJOROGE | NMG
President William Ruto’s plan to bring down prices of food by providing cheap fertilisers to farmers has been tried before by his predecessors, with varied degrees of success, but failed to achieve the intended goals.
His predecessors — Mwai Kibaki and Uhuru Kenyatta — tried this experiment of fertiliser subsidy with very little success, leading the latter to end the programme as it became clear that taxpayers were throwing good money after bad.
