NCPB to buy Sh1.2m bags of maize from North Rift farmers

Trucks carrying bags of wheat and maize, queue outside the Eldoret National Cereals and Produce Board Depot. The government ordered NCPB to buy both wheat and maize from farmers. A bag of maize will be purchased at a cost of Sh 3000 a bag. PHOTO: KEVIN TUNOI

The National Cereals and Produce Board (NCPB) has already purchased 410,000 bags of maize in the North Rift.

The amount, according to the managing director Newton Terer, is an increase compared to last year's 498,000 total purchase countrywide.