State to buy Sh5bn maize for reserves

The Strategic Food Reserve plans to purchase maize worth Sh5 billion from 2020 crop. FILE PHOTO | NMG

The Strategic Food Reserve (SRF) board plans to purchase maize worth Sh5 billion from this year’s crop to safeguard the country’s grain requirements in the new year.

Noah Wekesa, SFR chairman, said they target to two million 90-kilogramme bags of maize from farmers at Sh2,500 each.

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