Good News For Kenyans As Unga Prices Expected To Drop

It’s a relief for Kenyans as maize prices have dropped with a margin of 500 shillings for a 90-kilogram bag from 5300 shillings it was retailing at in the month of December to 4800 shillings in January. The drop in prices is expected to influence the price of maize flour in the country

Currently at 2kg packet of maize flour is retailing at a price range of KES 200 to KES 210 shillings as Kenyans continue to feel the dent in their pockets with the hope of the price of the crucial commodity to lower since it is the country’s staple food

With a new administration in place and the high cost of maize flour attributed to the electioneering year 2022 with other factors such as the high inflation and the ravaging drought also taking centre stage, many expected the price to have returned to normalcy by now the pledges made by the current government and the political temperatures have come down.

The price drop is timely as the country is expected to import approximately 900,000 metric tonnes of duty-free maize from February to august 2023. The government had announced in December 2022 that would allow millers to import the commodity from the region before the onset of the main harvest projected to be from October 2023

The drop attributed to increase in production and supply by farmers as the government continues to make strides in increasing production from reverting from rain-based agriculture to irrigation-based agriculture. The rolling out of subsidized fertilizer and farm inputs already in all the countries to help increase food production.

For now, many will be hopeful that the drop in maize prices will be visible and reciprocate on the shelves of their favourite meals