Cheap fertiliser gets Sh2.5bn extra in mini-budget

Workers at the Nakuru NCPB depot load bags of subsidised fertiliser on February 6, 2024. 

Photo credit: Boniface Mwangi | Nation Media Group

Farmers are among the few winners in the first supplementary budget of the financial year 2024/25 after the National Treasury allocated an additional Sh2.5 billion to the fertiliser subsidy programme.

This comes even as most programmes in the sector and the national government were hit by spending cuts after adjustment of the budget.

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