Farmers on losing end as brokers take advantage of rice glut in Ahero

Rice farmers at Ahero Irrigation Scheme stuck due to lack of market. [Collins Oduor, Standard]

For the past five months, Vitalis Okuta has been making countless trips from his home in Ombeyi to Western Kenya Rice Mills, three kilometres away at National Irrigation Authority in Ahero.

He makes the trips to find out whether the government plans to buy tonnes of rice farmers like him have at the mills storage facilities.