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Maize farmers and millers blame woes on subsidy plan
Trucks loaded with maize outside the National Cereals Produce Board in Industrial Area, Nakuru. NCPB suspended buying of maize, leaving farmers without a market. FILE PHOTO | NMG
A maize subsidy programme effected last year is now haunting farmers following flooding of the produce in the market.
Grain growers and millers in the North Rift say the programme messed up the local market by destabilising prices, which had been complicated by cheap produce from neighbouring countries under the East African Common Market protocol.
