The government will buy all rice in stock from farmers in the Mwea Irrigation Scheme to give room for the next harvesting season.
This comes after numerous complaints by farmers that the government is importing a lot of rice yet they have locally produced rice in their stores with no market.
The farmers also regretted the branding of imported rice to look like the premium Mwea rice, terming it unfair market competition.
The Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock Development, Cabinet Secretary (CS) Mutahi Kagwe, had sent a team from the Agriculture and Food Authority (AFA) and Kenya National Trading Corporation (KNTC) to address concerns raised by farmers under the Mwea Irrigation Scheme regarding the impact of Rice importation and the sale of locally produced rice.
