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Looming food crisis as maize withers in main growing zone
Leonard Kimutai (right), a farmer, shows Dr Cyril Cheruiyot, the Uasin Gishu County Agriculture executive, his withering maize crop. PHOTO | JARED NYATAYA | NMG
Kenya is headed for a major food crisis if the dry spell ravaging parts of the North Rift persists with more than 40,000 acres of the maize crop in Uasin Gishu County alone withering.
This translates to a loss of about 800,000 bags of maize with some areas like Moiben experiencing the last downpour in May this year.
