Kenya’s Maize Crop Too Small
NAIROBI. Kenya’s Minister for Agriculture, Mr Bruce McKenzie, has said that loss of confidence on the part of the colony’s European maize growers has led to a reduction in crop acreage of 52,000 acres—about one-third —in the last two years. Because of this the 1959-planted crop is likely to be barely sufficient to meet internal requirements, he said. Unless the reduction is halted and confidence of growers restored, there is a risk that Kenya may have to import white maize at a price considerably higher than the local grown product. Announcing that the producerprice for the 1960 crop would remain the same as for this season, Mr McKenzie remarked: “Experience has shown that it is not possible to plan maize production so that the needs of the Colony are exactly met, and in order to allow for any crop failures it is necessary, in the interests of the colony as a whole, to budget for a surplus and the price must be sufficiently high to ensure that a sufficient acreage of maize is planted.”—Reuter.
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Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29146, 5 March 1960, Page 10
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