Duty-free maize imports plan flops on costly supplies

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Trucks loaded with imported maize from Tanzania waiting to offload outside Mombasa Maize millers in Mombasa. FILE PHOTO | NMG

Kenya’s plan to import about 900,000 tonnes of white maize by next month has run into headwinds on costly global supplies.

The latest data from the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock Development show barely one-third of the desired imports had landed in the country by the end of June, ahead of closure of the duty-free import window next month.

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