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Offline Globalcitizen12

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Just curious.so where does Kenya import wheat from? I saw an article saying that kenya imports 300,000 tonnes of wheat every year

Offline MOON Ki

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Re: So did it rain enough to avert another drought early next year
« Reply #1 on: June 20, 2017, 10:59:48 PM »
Just curious.so where does Kenya import wheat from? I saw an article saying that kenya imports 300,000 tonnes of wheat every year

Kenya's wheat imports appear to be way above that; the figure you give looks more like annual local production than imports.  And the trend doesn't look good, rain or no rain.     See this:

https://www.indexmundi.com/agriculture/?country=ke&commodity=wheat&graph=imports

According to the USDA:   

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Re: So did it rain enough to avert another drought early next year
« Reply #2 on: June 21, 2017, 02:33:29 PM »
The rains have failed. Ndakaini at 20%, Rift valley farms which are the bread basket don't look good.

The government needs to import as much as maize and rice to last some six months given we are heading to election where not much will be possible and the global prices might hit the roof given drought across Africa.
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