Flower farmers agree to pay cess

Nakuru county governor Kinuthia Mbugua receives a cheque of over Sh10.3m from the chairman Lake Naivasha Growers Group Richard Fox as part of cess from flower farmers. The flower farmers have agreed to be paying twenty cents for every kilogram of produce harvested annually. [PHOTO/Antony Gitonga/STANDARD]

The Nakuru County government has struck a deal with flower farmers over the payment of cess after two years of delay.

Under the agreement with the Lake Naivasha Growers Group (LNGG), the flower farmers will be paying 20 cents for every kilogram of produce harvested annually. The farmers have also agreed to clear the two years' debt as the county moved in to enforce the recently enacted finance act. This emerged over the weekend when Nakuru Governor Kinuthia Mbugua received a Sh10.3 million cheque from the flower farms for the pending debt.