‘Bad’ maize: Kenya spends $6.6m a month on imports
The National Cereals and Produce Board officials check the quality of maize grains at their Eldoret depot. According to NCPB, only 500,000 bags of maize in the silos were fresh, being from the last harvest. PHOTO | STANLEY KIMUGE
Kenya has imported more than $6.6 million’s worth of maize from Tanzania and Uganda in the past one month amid claims of contamination of its own maize in government stores, as a result of which the retail price of a 2kg packet has risen by $0.15 in the past three months.
This development comes barely three months after Kenya and Uganda sold more than 10,000 tonnes to Tanzania to help fight starvation in neighbouring Malawi.
