Agriculture Cabinet Secretary Willy Bett. [Photo/Willy Bett]
Agriculture Cabinet Secretary Willy Bett has exuded confidence that the current maize shortage will be contained within the next one month.
Bett said on Tuesday that the expected maize importation from the East African Community and the Common Market for Eastern and Central Africa region, and local production will tame the crisis.
“We have imported maize from various global market segments to contain the acute shortage of the commodity following effects of prolonged drought,” Bett said in Nairobi.
He said farmers from the South Rift and the western part of the country have started harvesting while other regions will do so in a month’s time.
“More of this maize has also started coming in from Tanzania and Uganda. In the next one month, the local market will have enough maize to feed the population,” he said.