Farmers in Kenya’s bread basket scale down maize production

ELDORET: Farmers in the North Rift are scaling down maize production due to high prices of inputs that lead to low net returns.

“I began planting maize in 2005 and I used to cultivate over 500 acres in Moiben and Soy constituencies, but in 2009 I quit due to a drought that drained my investment considering that maize production is capital intensive,” says Sammy Kibiwott Karoney.