He urged maize farmers to continue registering in the ongoing farmer registration exercise to benefit from Government subsidy programs like the subsidized fertilizer to enhance food and nutrition security in our country. 

These dyers, Linturi added will be distributed in the larger Rift Valley region where farmers have had a bumper harvest.

The intervention is meant to ensure that farmers will have very small post harvest loses that would have otherwise been huge owing to the ongoing Elnino.

The president in another directive ordered the capping for drying at Kshs 70.

More dryers will be availed to the farmers once they arrive in the country.

The CS was accompanied by Uasin Gishu Governor Jonathan Chelilim, MP David Kiplagat, NCPB Chairman Hon. Samwel Ragwa, Managing Director Joseph Kimote among other leaders.