Bad fertiliser: Government shuts down KEL Chemicals
Agriculture CS, Mithika Linturi (right), KEL Chemicals General Manager, Chandrabhan Chimurkar (centre) and KEL Chemicals advocate, Victor Mosota inspecting the company's plant in Thika, Kiambu.
KEL Chemicals General Manager Chandrabhan Chimurkah said they had conducted their in-house Investigations and established that there was some hitch in the production process in the period between March 5 and 10, 2024.
Operations in the powder section at KEL Chemicals which mixed the fertiliser have been shut down already resulting in the job loss of some 150 people out of the total 275 who regularly work at the company.
The government has withdrawn the licence of KEL Chemicals, the Thika-based company alleged to have supplied farmers with substandard fertilisers under the government fertiliser subsidy programme.
This was said by the Agriculture Cabinet Secretary Mithika Linturi moments after visiting the aforementioned company and inspecting where the fertiliser was manufactured, mixed, packaged and eventually distributed to farmers across the country.
