Any crop grown — coffee, tea, maize, sugarcane, cotton, cashew nuts, pyrethrum, tobacco, name it — paid well and in good time. For us raised in then Rift Valley Province, KFA, short for Kenya Farmers Association, put a smile on our faces. AdvertisementThen, out of the blue, one early morning in the 1980s, we heard that KFA had been ordered to close shop. Today being a Sunday, those of us who pray ask God not to allow the lockdown to come to Kenya. that KFA would be no more, to be replaced by an outfit called Kenya Grain Growers Co-operative Union (KGGCU), a thieving conduit whose story the less told the better.

Source: Daily Nation April 12, 2020 06:56 UTC