By PAULINE KAIRU More by this AuthorSmallholder farmers will soon start receiving e-vouchers from the government to enable them to access inputs like fertilisers. Each e-voucher, to be accessed by farmers as an SMS, will be allocated a value of about Sh20,000 per acre. “This is not a subsidy, rather an incentive to spur the right farming practices amongst our small farmers. The programme seeks to incentivise small farmers to learn that they need to incorporate the right agronomic practices, the correct inputs, timings and seeds to get high yields. The plan by government is to graduate small farmers into commercial farming.

Source: Daily Nation July 16, 2020 12:11 UTC