The National Cereals and Produce Board (NCPB) has been asked to give subsidized fertilizer to farmers who have delivered their maize but have not been paid.
Uasin Gishu governor Jackson Mandago says this will enable farmers to plant early even as they wait for their payments from the NCPB.
It has been estimated that NCPB owes farmers close to Sh3 billion for the maize supplied since last.
The board has been buying maize from farmers at Sh3, 200 per 90-kilogram bag.
“NCPB should give fertilizer to farmers who have supplied maize to them and the cost be reduced from the money they are supposed to be paid,” Mandago said in Eldoret town on Saturday.
“It will not make sense that a farmer is denied the subsidized fertilizer just because he doesn’t’ have the cash yet he is supposed to be paid by the very same NCPB selling fertilizers,” he added.
Farmers in the North Rift region have started planting following the onset of the March-May long rains.