State plays down fears on lack of ample foodThe country has enough food to feed everyone even as it struggles to contain the spread of coronavirus, State officials have said. In an update yesterday channeled through the Ministry of Agriculture and the Council of Governors, the government said it expects a surplus of 3.4 million bags of maize by June 31 2020. The update explained that the grain is enough to cushion Kenyans in case of a food shortage emergency. For More of This and Other Stories, Grab Your Copy of the Standard Newspaper. Read Now »Statistics from the Kenya National Bureaus of Statistic (KNBS) show that over 14 million people would need food urgently in case of such a lockdown.

Source: Standard Digital April 09, 2020 06:00 UTC