Cereals millers can now import duty-free maize

The “shortage” of maize in the country has seen the price of a 90kg bag of maize shoot from Sh3,000 a few weeks ago to almost Sh4,500 in most parts of the country.

The high price is expected to continue into next year as shortfall is likely to persist due to poor harvest occasioned by erratic rains this year, said the Cereal Growers Association of Kenya last week.

Consumers are buying a 2kg packet of maize flour at Sh130, compared to Sh102 some weeks ago.

Last week, millers said “a delay” in publishing a legal notice for the imports would see the untaxed grains arrive in the country from August against an earlier official projection of early July.