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Farmers feel the pinch of costly fertiliser and fuel

Fertiliser

Workers offload a subsidised fertiliser consignment from a truck at the National Cereals and Produce Board, Eldoret depot in Uasin Gishu County.

Photo credit: File | Nation Media Group
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By  Barnabas Bii

Correspondent

What you need to know:

  • Many of the farmers might be forced to plant without fertiliser if the distribution is not stepped up.
  • Fertiliser prices reached a record high of ShSh6,200 up from Sh3,000 per a 50kg bag in the open market.

Cereal farmers will have to grapple with high production costs due to delayed procurement of cheap government fertiliser and acute fuel shortage.

This has made it hard for farmers to obtain the farm input and plant as the planting exercise starts in most parts of the North Rift region.

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