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Prepare for bumper harvest, CS Kagwe tells NCPB as farmers scramble for fertilizer

A section of subsidized fertilizer bags at National Cereals and Produce Board (NCPB) offices in Machakos town on March 26, 2025. [John Muia, Standard]

Agriculture Cabinet Secretary Mutahi Kagwe has said the government expects a bumper harvest from the current planting season after farmers took up more fertilizers compared to the previous season.

According to Kagwe, there has been an unprecedented high demand for fertilisers, with 180,000 bags of the farm input ordered daily.

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