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Don't bring in duty-free maize just yet - farmers

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Workers stack bags of maize at Kitui flour mills store in Eldoret. [Peter Ochieng, Standard]

Farmers have urged the government to extend the release of imported duty-free maize into the market until local produce has been exhausted.

With the anticipation of imported maize into the country expected from next week, anxiety is rife in the North Rift region as prices continue to fall.

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