Shock for maize farmers as market flooded with imports

Kenyan Maize variety, a new disease threatens to wipe the grain.

Local farmers might be in for a rude shock after millers brought into the country an extra eight million bags of cheap maize.

This also brings into question the Government’s maize subsidy programme, in which the State was to spend about Sh6.5 billion but might have spent at least Sh17 billion.