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How State gave animals a prime slot at dinner table

Agriculture Cabinet Secretary Willy Bett with millers representatives when he announced subsidised maize flour prices last week. [Photo: file/Standard]

Kenya’s stocks of white maize were depleted by manufacturers of animal feed after the Government initially turned down an offer to allow them to import yellow maize for livestock.

Feed manufacturers say they approached the Ministry of Agriculture in September last year and again in February, when they noted that competition with millers would cut down stocks for unga.

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