Maize shortage in Kenya

Ulukolokwitanga said:
Hii ni fursa ya sisi watanzania kupiga hela ya wakenya, tuchangamke sasa
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Mwaka huu mahindi hatunayo ya kutosha kwa vile watu hawakulima sana kutokana na tatizo la ukosaji soko mwaka jana. Hii yote ni kosa la serikali kutaka mkulima alime tu halafu serikali ipange bei na wa kumuuzia.
 
They will not understand you. The point being made here is that their agricultural production,value chains and overall organization is woeful for a country it's size and potential. In fact it's so awful, i think it's Sammuel999 who gave indisputable data that "small", 2/3 arid Kenya has ALWAYS outstripped her southern neighbour in matters agricultural from a per capita and overall perspective.

They cannot produce and market any agricultural commodity properly like some nations do. Itawasaidia kupata forex and reduce the trade deficit.Yaani,people in this technological day and age use food as a weapon in a useless ideological battle . What a waste, but geza will not see that.
 

Sijui ni kuelewa hawa jamaa huwa hawaelewi, ni wajinga, ama nikujifanya wanajifanya, wanakalia kuwa wanatulisha ilhali wanatuuzia mahindi sisi tunawapa hela, same thing wanapokwenda dukani wanunue finished products toka viwanda vya kenya, si kuwa tunawafanyia favour, its business. Kama wanaona ni favour wanafanya, basi Magu akurupuke kama kawaida yake azuie mahindi ya Tanzania yasiuzwe Kenya tuone kama tutakufa njaa, na hio surplus tuone wakulima wa Tz hawatauza hayo mahindi bei ya mchicha.
 
Akina MK254 na huwezi kuwaona kwenye nyuzi kama hizi, wanapita kimyakimya!
 
Duh,kweli akili ya mtz ni sawa na ya ngiri,kwani watz wa jf ni watoto wa shule ya msingi?
 
June 26, 2016
Nairobi, Kenya

Cost of flour to go up as millers boycott stock

Some of them have opted to import more expensive grain from Tanzania.

Millers have been avoiding maize from the National Cereals and Produce Board (NCPB) claiming that it is unfit for human consumption.

Instead, some of them have opted to import more expensive grain from Tanzania, effectively pushing up the cost of maize meal, a staple food in most of the country.

As a result of the boycott by the private millers, the cereals board has been experiencing difficulties selling its “dead stock”.

According to the millers, the maize stock from NCPB depots in western Kenya has a brown coloration and is prone to attack by weevils. This, they said, was an indication that the maize had overstayed in the silos. In some cases, however, the Grade 4 maize becomes unfit for consumption — even as animal feed — when it stays for long in the stores.

“I purchased 2,500 bags of maize from the NCPB stores in Eldoret and Ainabkoi depots and it proved to be of low quality,” said a miller who requested anonymity for fear of losing clients. “The flour had a pungent smell forcing me to abandon buying maize from the board.”

Source: Cost of flour to go up as millers boycott stock
 
Kenya to import Tanzanian corn as stocks lacking
www.ippmedia.com/business/kenya-import-tanzanian-corn-stocks-lacking-0

“We don’t have enough maize in Kenya,” CMA Chairman Nick Hutchinson told reporters in the capital, Nairobi, using another term for corn. The association has about 500,000 90-kilogram (198-pound) bags in stock, which covers seven days, he said. The Tanzanian grain will arrive in a few weeks, and the purchases will be by traders, he said.

The nation has 2.5 million bags in reserves compared with monthly consumption of 3 million, the Agriculture Ministry said last week. Millers in Kenya, which has East Africa’s biggest economy, have rejected about half of corn received this year mainly because of aflatoxin, Hutchinson said. The toxic chemical is caused by fungus, according to the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization.

The naturally occurring carcinogen can result from improper storage conditions and costs the continent’s farmers as much as $670 million annually, according to the African Union’s Partnership for Aflatoxin Control. Kenya is also looking to the harvest in July and August, as well as imports from other countries in the East African Community, to balance the deficit. About 50 million people are food-insecure in the eastern and southern parts of the continent after crops were hit by El Nino-induced droughts, the United Nations’ Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said this month. Wheat production may climb 8.5 percent in 2016 to 300,000 metric tons from a year earlier, Hutchinson said. Kenyans consume 1.75 million tons annually, and demand is growing at 15 percent a year, he said.
 
Geza Ulole, you seem to be good at going to Kenya websites and copy pasting info. All well and good.
Today i have learnt how much maize (or corn for those who speak Am. English ) Kenyans consume per day, per month and annually. Great stats. One can find reliable stats on most things kenyan from the average shoe size of a 12 year old to the price of eggs in Kithekani market. Great news stories on topical issues in kenyan newspapers too, compared to most african dailies. In fact i often quip to people, one can learn alot about kenya from the comfort of their average internet enabled phone,than most african nations. Google content on any topic of interest with africa as a tag, and guaranteed, Kenya will pop up more frequently than its physical size relative to the rest of the continent. Why not Chad or mozambique or Togo????

Why do most African nations lack such data that kenyans take for granted??In this and many more aspects, african nations are data blind.

And maize consumption will rise in qualitative and quantitative terms. Sema free market research.
 
from a UG article
While all five EAC states are described as agricultural economies, the report notes that productivity in the region’s industrial sector is approximately ten times that in the agricultural sector.
“Kenya’s agricultural sector is more than twice as productive as any other EAC partner state,” the report reads.
Kenya also leads in several measures of human capital, including literacy rates, primary completion rates and the proportion of firms offering formal training
 
It seems most african nations don't know how to leverage their resources for human development. How else do you explain a kasmall country like Kenya having an agricultural sector twice as productive as her neighbours with far, far less arable land at her disposal ? Or better indicators, yet we don't have gold, oil, gas or diamonds?

I'll tell you why: Human resources. No two ways about it. You may have all the gold in the world, but if you don't know how to get it out of the ground, its all useless.
 
Well said Qiuckly its like giving expensive jewellery to a pig which will only trample on them.
 
Smatta said:
Don't you think it's a good thing for you guys? Though it wont last forever, considering the large irrigation projects the jubillee gvt has initiated, y'all fruits should take advantage.
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Hiyo Galana ni white elephant project. Keep your hopes low.
 
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