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Study reveals farmers' pain amid cereal glut

Smallholder maize farmers suffered massive losses after they spent more to produce a bag of maize than they sold it in the open market.

A survey by Tegemeo Institute, an agricultural policy and development think-tank, indicates farmers spent Sh1,366 to produce a bag of maize but sold it at Sh1,250.  

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