There's something we can agree on NCPB, it should be just be a strategic reserve it shouldn't be interfering with the market. Our production per acre has to go up, so that not only to produce enough maize for human consumption but for livestock. If its not economically viable kenya should open the market and farmers can shift to other crops. Galana, surely you're not suggesting that the government be involved in actual farming? There's a very good irrigation scheme in mwea that's working. NIB put up the scheme, the farmers pay NIB for water used. The rice production, milling, marketing and packaging is fully liberalized.
I believe if the NCPB is freed from and elevated above politics it can carry out its mandate.
I see nothing wrong wrong with the NCPB buying grain. However I agree it should not influence prices upwards or downwards. It should operate in a free market buying grain all over the country equally. The stores must be filled up and only emptied when new grain is coming in.
The government is now in a position to bring back the GMR (Guaranteed Minimum Returns) facility for registered farmers. There is no region on earth with highly productive agriculture which has no subsidies.
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