Nairobi Kenya — The Ministry of Agriculture has announced that the National Cereals and Produce Board ) will begin collecting 321,000 bags of wheat from farmers to address the ongoing wheat ...

For the 2024/2025 season, millers are purchasing local wheat at Ksh5,300 per 90kg bag, a rate higher than the global import parity price of between Ksh3,500 to Ksh3700, a difference of close to ...

Over the past two decades, millers have consistently purchased all locally produced wheat at premium prices to support and incentivise production. However, Kenya’s wheat output has declined and ...

Fast forward to today. We can't grow enough wheat in Kenya, yet the population has gone up. Why is the wheat coming back where it was once the king? There are several reasons. One is the Ukraine ...

Nairobi Kenya — The Agricultural Food Authority (AFA) has said that Kenya only produces 8 percent of its wheat demand, which is 2.2 to 2.4 million metric tonnes annually, relying on 92 per cent ...