A section of Rift Valley leaders have rejected the government's Sh2,300 offer for a bag maize, vowing that farmers will not accept anything less than Sh3,600 for a 90kg bag.
Early this month, two governors from the country's maize basket counties Jackson Mandago (Uasin Gishu) and Patrick Khaemba said the Sh2,300 offer, which was initially flouted by the Strategic Grain Reserve Board, was unacceptable to the farmers.
"Farmers are producing maize at an average cost of Sh1,800 per bag and if one considers the costs of transport and other issues then they cannot make profit at Sh2,300 per bag," Mandago said.
"Farmers are producing maize at the cost of averagely Sh1,800 per bag and if one considers the costs of transport and other issues then they cannot make profits at Sh 2,300 per bag," said Mandago.
"We did a study this year we were finding that the cost was ranging between Sh1,800 and Sh1,900 to produce a bag of maize but then this is just cost of production, it does not include the margins and access to market.
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