The National Cereals and Produce Board (NCPB) may soon be denied traditional rights to receive and sell fertilizers.
Farmers from across the country has for decades been receiving government's farm inputs through the board.
Agriculture CS Mwangi Kiunjuri says the government is planning to keep farm in puts under farmers' management.
"Very soon, the government will start changing things in distribution of fertilizers," Kiunjuri said.
He spoke at the Eldoret Agricultural Show on Saturday.
Kiunjuri said his ministry has partnered with county governments in maize growing areas to register farmers.
"The farmers registration is an agreement that will see us establish real farmers and rid those who would buy fertilizers in bulk for later sale," Kiunjuri said.
Kiunjuri was reacting to a call by Uasin Gishu Deputy Governor Daniel Chemno for the ministry to solve issues of cartels in agriculture.
He said farmers will be put under cooperatives who will before the government's farm inputs importation, deposit money collected from their members for purchase of fertilizers.
"As soon as the government receives fertilizers in Mombasa Port, it will be known which coops get what volumes of the input. We want to avoid this practice of storing fertilizers in government stores," Kiunjuri added.
Kiunjuri said the cartels' 40 days were over.
Some officials of the National Cereals and Produce Board were accused of having aided cartels obtain thousands bags of fertilizers last year.