Muranga County offers subsidies for produce to boost farmers

Kambiti East mango farmers chairman Patrick Sila demonstrating to his colleagues on procedures of drying mangos in one of the farms in Murang'a South district. [Boniface Gikandi, Standard]

Murang'a County government has paid out Sh20 million to dairy and mango farmers after they qualified for a subsidy programme.

In the exercise witnessed by Cabinet secretaries Moses Kuria (Trade) and Prof Njuguna Ndung'u(Treasury), Governor Irungu Kang'ata said the assembly allocated the subsidy programme Sh20million to boost the dairy and mango farmers after years of exploitation.