The price for the 90-kilogramme bag has slumped from Sh6,200 to Sh3,200.
This comes as millers decry low sales as most consumers opt for posho mill flour.
It is double tragedy to grain farmers as maize prices drop by Sh3,000 per a 90-kilogramme bag even as they battle rising costs of farm inputs that might force some to reduce acreage under the crop this season.
The price for the 90-kilogramme bag has slumped from Sh6,200 to Sh3,200 on the back of the scaling down of purchases by large scale millers and harvesting of short term crops such as potatoes and beans.