Kitale farmers resort to horticulture in search of better returns

More and more farmers in breadbasket farming areas are switching from planting the staple maize to horticulture in search of better returns. On this week’s episode of the next frontier in agriculture, Philip Keitany examines how decades of high input costs, low returns and distortion of the maize market through poor implementation of policy and conflicts of interest have foreced farmers to seek refuge in other crops.
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