Anguish of farmers stuck with 300,000 bags of last year’s maize

Lorries queue to offload maize at a National Cereals and Produce Board depot in February. [Kipsang Joseph, Standard]

Farmers in the North Rift are still holding hundreds of thousands of bags of maize as the cereals board is not accepting any more supplies.

Faced with numerous challenges occasioning losses running into billions, farmers have reduced the acreage under maize, while others have turned their farms into wheat fields and commercial pasture.