MPs claim cartels behind subsidized fertilizer hitch

National Assembly Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries Committee Chairman Adan Haji Ali addresses the media at Parliament. [Boniface Okendo/Standard]

A parliamentary committee has claimed that cartels were behind the cancellation of a tender to supply subsidised fertiliser for maize farming.

Members of the National Assembly’s Agriculture Committee yesterday said the country was staring at a major crisis because farmers were likely to miss the crucial farm input ahead of the planting season.