http://www.the-star.co.k...-rift-maize-says-koskei

The North Rift maize farmers shouldn't hold the govt hostage. Now they are even dictating prices that govt (read tax payers) should buy. NB the NCPB depots are still full of last yrs maize. Why should a bag of maize be selling at 800 bob in Uganda while it is 3000 bob on the other side of the border in kenya? Maize should be left to market forces like all other commodities. That way the price of unga will come down to 50 bob per 2kg.

The gava gave them fertaliser and machinery and they produced as required. The farmers have done their part, now let the gava buy the maize to put in grain reserves period!

All those you have highlighted are only used to prepare snacks as you wait to eat the real food?

Why would government waste money buying rice(who eats rice anyway?)?Coffee ni ya wazungu na Kysse!

A 50kg bag of DAP goes for KSh 3,000 in retail. The government provided subsidized fertilizer which was going for KSh 2,200, however this was quietly siphoned by the big guns e.g. in the Nakuru depot a good portion of that consignment ended up in Kabarak farm of MO1; so most farmers did not benefit from the government subsidies. 25kg of certified seeds were selling at KSh 3,500. When you compound all these together with labor and machinery, the cost of producing a 90 kg bag of maize becomes very high in comparison to someone farming in UG or TZ. DAP in UG is approximately KSh 1,000; ironically that too was shipped through the Mombasa port. Considering the high cost of farming in Kenya probably as a results of high Duty, VAT and other Taxes, it’s cheaper for us to stop farming and become net importers of food stuff.

Accept and move on. How come the DAP is cheaper in UG than Kenya after making the trip all the way from Mbsa ? Just like fuel,accept and move on
the middle men will continue building mansions

Tell that to the poor folk...pole kwao.

How maize-growing cartel holds State to ransom

Meanwhile middlemen have imported hundreds of thousands of bags from Uganda at 800bob and are waiting to sell to NCPB at 2800 bob. Current maize market price is 1500 bob. For how long will we subsidize maize farmers, and making the price of unga so high?

Another maize scandal in the pan cooking.



You all know how it plays out - no fertilizer then low production causing importation of maize.

If Uhuru wants to achieve any of his agendas he has to ensure that Kenya is food sufficient. Na si lazima watu wale ugali ama githeri. I think to punish these people we should produce more rice wheat, revolutionize the potato and it will not take long before that maize magendo industry is totally disrupted.

Maize is our Food security.
Food has been a cause of riots and collapse of order all over the world starting with the known french revolution caused by the rise of bread prices.
Eygpt subsidizes its wheat.
I heard somewhere that in India its onions, i don't know how true this is... but everywhere i know Governments including US, Britain subsidies its farmers and guarantees a reserve price and keeps strategic reserves in case of a shortage.
Increase in prices on staple food consumed by the majority of the populace means most cannot afford to buy it, which means hunger then anger and there is no way you can control an hungry-angry mass - riots - collapse of order and possibly a revolution. That is what is happening in Venezuela and Sudan. The majority of those citizens don't care about oil prices, they want to eat.

Rotten maize > aflatoxins > cancer > death.

https://www.cancer.gov/a...k/substances/aflatoxins

It would be genocidal for millers to feed kenyans rotten maize so as to please maize farmers.

You should also know that last year it was unusually wet especially during the harvest season and this led to spoilage and poor drying of the maize and thus rotten maize.

https://www.the-star.co....-harvest-in-north-rift/

So where does kenyatta come in? You want to blame him for the "Indian ocean dipole" that caused the unusual weather and climate change?