When Jacinta Auma harvested about one tonne of rice she was an excited farmer and was looking forward to positive returns after toiling on the Kano plains in Kisumu, which is well known for rice production.
But just as she was delivering the produce to the National Irrigation Authority, a middleman intercepted her and offered to pay instant cash of Sh40,000 instead of waiting for ages to be paid about Sh50,000 by the State corporation.
