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Save maize farmers agony of searching for buyers

The management of Kenya's staple grain, maize, has become a problem and source of headache to the farmers who grow it.

Just one month after President Uhuru Kenyatta stepped in and directed the National Cereals and Produce Board (NCPB) to start buying the grain to relieve farmers of their financial burdens, Agriculture Cabinet Secretary Felix Koskei has come up with a declaration that seems to contradict his boss.

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