In November last year, the Ministry of Agriculture had proposed to use e-vouchers for farmers to buy subsidised fertiliser from private agro-vet shops. This was to help weed out unscrupulous traders and help farmers access quality fertiliser. Read: New Safaricom farm technologyThis means that farmers will have to buy fertiliser at a higher price. This after the government said it is restructuring importation of subsidised fertiliser to make it easily accessible to farmers. Finance CS Henry Rotich at the weekend said in future, farmers will be able to import their subsidised fertiliser through cooperative societies.

Source: The Star February 06, 2019 19:41 UTC