The NCPB will this week begin paying farmers who have delivered maize to the board in the last one monthCEO Albin Sang says they have so far bought more than 100,000 bags of maize from farmers mostly in the Rift Valley region. Legislators from the Rift Valley region led by Senator Margaret Kamar say they will push to have NCPB devolved with a better funding strategy to benefit farmers. Kamar said the vetting of farmers at the NCPB had been frustrating and unnecessary. She says the farmers have been vetted so many times and stringent conditions introduced by the NCPB had demoralized farmers. More than 1,000 lorries and tractor re lining up with maize at NCPB depots to deliver maize

Source: The Star February 24, 2019 19:40 UTC