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State: Chiefs will help distribute cheap maize

Kenya National Cereals and Produce board employee offloads some of the maize consignment that arrived at the Donholm silos on 19 June 2017.Photo by Edward Kiplimo

Chiefs and other local administrators will be incorporated in the distribution of subsidised maize as the State widens the programme beyond large millers.

Agriculture Cabinet Secretary Willy Bett said yesterday only the involvement of the provincial administration would guarantee that maize reached most parts of the country.

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