| Published Tue, June 5th 2018 at 00:00, Updated June 4th 2018 at 22:20 GMT +3Lorries queue to offload maize at a National Cereals and Produce Board depot in February. [Kipsang Joseph, Standard]Farmers in the North Rift are still holding hundreds of thousands of bags of maize as the cereals board is not accepting any more supplies. Faced with numerous challenges occasioning losses running into billions, farmers have reduced the acreage under maize, while others have turned their farms into wheat fields and commercial pasture. “There are more than 300,000 bags of last year’s maize still held by individual farmers in their stores in our county. After offering the Sh3,200 producer price, financial arrangements should have been made to purchase all produce from farmers,” said Yego.

Source: Standard Digital June 04, 2018 21:00 UTC