Middlemen target desperate farmers to buy their produce at cheaper price

Green maize trader sort out the produce at Kisii County market on May 11,2016 morning after the arrival of the produce from other counties

NAIROBI, KENYA: Farmers are being urged not to fall into the traps of middlemen at this time when harvesting time nears.

Export Trading Group Country Director Shem Odhiambo says farmers in Kenya have for a long time been exposed to unscrupulous businessmen who would buy their produces at throwaway prices, leaving them in poverty.