State stares at Sh5B loss as it starts to sell maize in NCPB silos

Agriculture CS Mwangi Kiunjuri (L) with his Agricultural Research PS Prof. Hamadi Boga and NCPB MD.Albin Sang when they appeared before the Senate Ad-hoc Committee on Maize. [Boniface Okendo/Standard]

The Government is set to make a Sh5.15 billion loss when in starts selling maize held in State silos.

Agriculture Cabinet Secretary Mwangi Kiunjuri, yesterday told the Senate ad hoc committee on the maize crisis that the Government would, in the next three weeks, start selling 3.6 million bags.