The government is undertaking a detailed assessment of rising global fertiliser prices in a bid to identify measures to protect farmers from escalating input costs while maintaining stable supply...
By
Gadiosa Lamtey
Business Reporter
Mwananchi Communications Ltd
What you need to know:
Subsidised fertiliser drying up as global supply shock hits Kenya's grain belt
Centre floats second global tender for 70 lakh tonne urea despite surge in prices
Maize farmers storm NCPB Eldoret depot over fertiliser shortage
Win for farmers as fertiliser subsidy gets Sh18b in budget
Farmers seek fertilizer alternatives as Iran war drives up prices
The shortages are expected to drive fertiliser prices higher, reducing affordability and application rates, and likely reducing…
Science tells us a system is weak long before it breaks, but history shows it often takes a crisis for that lesson to sink in.…
The latest increase in Kenya's import costs is particularly notable because it ends the steady easing that followed the…
Accelerating Africa's own fertiliser production now will build agency and resilience to future shocks, argue Yemi Osinbajo and…
The government has issued a second global tender to import 70 lakh tonne of urea for the kharif season, despite a sharp rise in…
The government is set to import 115,000 tonnes of fertiliser from Canada, Russia, and Saudi Arabia, aiming to build up stocks…
