Kenya’s food import bill has fallen for the first time in four years, reflecting improved local output of crops such as maize and sugarcane on the State input subsidy programme amid relatively favourable weather.
Expenditure on food from abroad dipped by a double-digit rate to an estimated $2.065 billion (about Sh266.39 billion) in the year ended last December, provisional data from the Kenya Revenue Authority and Central Bank of Kenya shows.
