| RUTO IN A YEAR | The agriculture plan

Agriculture and the cost of food defined the challenges of President William Ruto’s first year in office. To stimulate farming and food production, President Ruto’s administration rolled out subsidies and injected billions of shillings to distribute millions of bags of fertilizer at discounted prices to maize farmers. And as he clocks the first year, all eyes are on the farms where the first harvest linked to subsidized fertilizer is just about to be realized. BEN KIRUI is on the Agriculture watch in Ruto in a Year