Workers loading imported maize at the Mombasa port in the past. Kenya will be forced to rely on maize imports beginning July due to an impending shortage of 18 million bags, a new study shows. Photo/FILE
Although the country is considered an agricultural economy, it is a net maize importer as it produces about 30 million bags of the grain yearly against consumption of 42 million bags.
Kenya will be forced to rely on maize imports beginning July due to an impending shortage of 18 million bags, a new study shows.
Conducted by the Ministry of Agriculture in February, the survey projected national maize availability as at July 2014 to be 16.6 million bags of 90 kilogramme capacity.
