President Ruto and the Kenya Kwanza government are keen on halving the country’s food imports by the year 2025 as currently, Kenya spends over 500 Billion shillings on food importation.

This means that the government is diligently putting in measures aimed at not only reducing the costs of production for farmers, but also ensuring that farmers incur as little post-harvest losses as possible.

In alignment to this goal, the President made a promise to the Kenyan farmer that his government would provide the necessary facilities in aid of this.

“We don’t want to farmers to dry maize on the roads. In the NCPB the drying services which you use to pay Sh300 will now be reduced to Sh70 for 90kg sack. It will be cheaper than drying on the road,” the President said in October 2023.

In fulfilment of this promise, about 43 Mobile Grain Dryers have been delivered and distributed to various NCPB depots across the country. Farmers can now have their maize dried at only 70 shillings per bag, a significant drop from the previous 350/- shillings.

Maize farmers in Meru will also be gifted Sunflower seeds as the government hopes to encourage diversification of the farming practices.

Dairy farmers have not been forgotten or left behind either. The government has made plans to distribute about 650 milk coolers across the country. These coolers will be set in each ward in the country, providing daily farmers with a security and easy accessibility.

President Ruto and the government set aside 8 Billion shillings for this program.

Agriculture remains a top priority in the Kenya Kwanza’s Bottom-up Transformation Agenda.