Uncertainty continues to cloud the promise of cheaper maize flour even as Kenyans brace for harder times with inflation driving the cost of living higher. PRICE DROPThe anticipated relief was pegged on a release of some one million bags of maize from the government's strategic grain reserves at a cheaper price to the millers who would then translate it to the consumers in cheaper maize flour. The Cereals Millers Association, which backed Treasury Cabinet Secretary Henry Rotich and his Agriculture counterpart Willy Bett in the April 4 promise, now says the cheaper maize flour will take longer. The National Strategic Food Reserve, which had only 1.3 million bags of maize in January against the required three million bags, is also fast depleting. It should, at any time, have the three million bags that can sustain the country for a month in case of an emergency.

Source: The North Africa Journal April 30, 2017 09:11 UTC