An attendant stocks maize flour at a Supermarket in Kakamega County, February 23, 2023. Kenyans from different walks of life are purchasing the commodity at between Sh190 and Sh220. [Benjamin Sakwa, ...

Fifteen per cent of maize flour in the country is contaminated but the wheat is generally safe. A survey by the Ministry of Health and Jomo Kenyatta University of Science and Technology (Jkuat), ...

Agriculture Cabinet Secretary Mithika Linturi said Kenyans must consider other alternatives to feed themselves because countries in the region such as Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia are presently ...

Despite ongoing food shortages, the government of Malawi last month banned the import of unmilled maize from Kenya and Tanzania, citing concerns about the spread of maize lethal necrosis disease, or ...

NAIROBI, May 16 (Reuters) - Kenya will offer subsidies to maize importers to help lower the cost of maize flour which shot up due to a regional drought, Agriculture Minister Willy Bett said on Tuesday ...

The committee noted that a multi-agency team was put in place to oversee the programme but it did not provide a report on areas of coverage. It added that the maize flour under the programme was not ...

Two months to the end of the gazetted period to import cheap maize, it has surfaced that traders have only been able to import 48,000tn against the expected 500,000tn. Treasury CS, Prof. Njuguna Ndung ...

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