Aflatoxin poses huge risk to food security

Women and children sort out maize products at the revived Moruese irrigation scheme in Turkana county. The scheme is providing food to over 6,000 families. 19.02.2019. [Peter Ochieng, Standard]

Farmers in Tana River County are among the local producers who have lost billions of shillings after their crop was infected with aflatoxin.

Virtually, all the maize harvested from the Hola Agricultural Irrigation Scheme in 2013 was declared unfit for human consumption by the World Food Programme (WFP) for containing the substance known to cause cancer.