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State drags its feet on plan to buy maize

Agriculture Cabinet Secretary Mwangi Kiunjuri.

The State has bought 460,000 bags of maize only out of the two million it targets to purchase from farmers for last season’s harvest.

This is amid the irony of food shortages in semi arid areas, as cereal producers in North Rift struggle to market their abundant harvests realised over the last two seasons.

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