Farmers in Kenya’s food basket regions have raised concerns over a shortage of subsidised fertiliser, a situation they say could severely disrupt the ongoing planting season. For over a week now, farmers from Uasin Gishu, Trans Nzoia and Elgeyo Marakwet counties, key maize-producing regions, have camped outside the Eldoret National Cereals and Produce Board depot in search of the commodity. The farmers are now calling on the government to devolve fertiliser distribution to ward level, saying this would ease access and reduce delays.
