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State pay farmers Sh1.4 b for maize delivery

Workers ponder outside the silos after part of maize drying machine caught fire at the National Cereals and Produce Board depot in Eldoret on January 4, 2018. [Peter Ochieng, Standard]

The Government on Monday started the process of paying out Sh1.4 billion to smallholder farmers for the maize delivered to depots last year.

It is the latest effort by the Devolution Ministry to settle the debts to farmers, who have in the past complained about delayed payments for maize sold to the National Cereals and Produce Board (NCPB).The farmers are owed Sh3.5 billion.

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