NCPB holds onto fertiliser as it awaits directive on price
Workers offload bags of subsidised fertiliser from a lorry at the National Cereals and Produce Board depot in Elburgon, Nakuru County on August 5. Farmers say they are yet to access the commodity, which is supposed to be sold at Sh2,500 down from Sh3,500.
Farmers in the Rift Valley region are yet to access the new batch of government-subsidised fertiliser, two weeks after President William Ruto announced that prices had dropped to Sh2,500 per bag.
President Ruto said his government had reduced the prevailing prices of Sh3,500 by Sh1,000 per 50kg bag to boost agricultural production in the country. He said the government had spent Sh12 billion to subsidise fertiliser for farmers, who are expected to harvest 61 million bags of maize this year, up from 44 million bags last year.
