"By cutting out brokers, middlemen and other intermediaries, we stand to eradicate corruption and inefficiencies...to concentrate maximum benefits to the farmer," said the president. The ones hawked as boiled and roasted are of lower grades and goes at a maximum of Sh10 per piece at the farm gate, but reaching the consumer at a minimum of Sh20. The brokers neither own produce nor stalls, but they run the show in the market. “It is a law that bulk buyers of farm produce must be accompanied by brokers. “There are brokers for every produce and they are the ones who take over selling.

Source: Daily Nation November 19, 2023 02:59 UTC