High fuel costs slowing down farming activities, warns CBK

Labourers offload bags of potatoes from a tractor to a lorry at Mwisho wa Lami in Njoro, Nakuru on September 05, 2017. [File, Standard]

Kenyan farmers have cited high transport costs as the leading factor that constrained agricultural production in July, a new sector survey by the Central Bank of Kenya (CBK).

The number of respondents who said that transport costs were "very significant," touched a high of 80 per cent, more than input prices, for example, seeds at fertiliser at 73 per cent.