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Food crisis fears as farmers lack funds to cultivate their farms

Barely two months to the onset of next planting season, maize farmers  are yet to receive subsidised fertilizer promised by the Government.

In what could lead to a food crisis in the country, most farmers in the North Rift, the country's bread basket, are also yet to prepare their farms ahead of long rain season that expected to begin in March.

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