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Embu miraa farmers demand more of Sh1b kitty

Mbeerembu Miraa Farmers Co-operative Union Chairman Silas Ngerenwa and other members address the press at Kiritiri market yesterday. [Joseph Muchiri, Standard]

Sharing of the Sh1 billion miraa kitty among khat growing counties of Mt Kenya East region has elicited complaints from farmers in Embu County.

Embu miraa farmers say the Sh167 million the Implementation Committee allocated the county is below their expectations as they had agitated for at least a third of the kitty.

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