Time flies with great content! Renew in to keep enjoying all our premium content.
Prime
Farmers cry foul as millers import maize from Uganda
Kenya has inked a deal with Kampala to buy 6.6 million bags of maize at Sh2, 050 each to plug a deficit that has triggered a rise in flour prices. FILE PHOTO | NMG
As millers rush to import 6.6 million bags of cheap maize from Uganda, farmers in Rift Valley are stranded with their harvest after the Ministry of Agriculture scaled down purchases.
Farmers now say cross-border trade in cereals is hurting them while favouring millers.