Counties Millers buy maize cheaply as farmers appeal to NCPBTrucks deliver maize at an NCPB depot last November in Eldoret. Farmers are opting for the traders and millers who are buying the grain at Sh2,500 against Sh3,200 that the National Cereals and Produce Board (NCPB) offers. The NCPB was allocated Sh7.1 billion last financial year to buy 2.4 million bags of maize at Sh3,200 for the strategic grain reserves. The NCPB has so far bought 2.3 million bags of 90kg maize and paid farmers Sh4.6 billion for the crop. Maize farmers in the region took to the streets when the NCPB suspended buying the produce after exhausting the Sh2.7 billion it was allocated in the 2014/2015 financial year.

Source: The North Africa Journal February 01, 2018 16:07 UTC