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FARMKENYA INITIATIVE A trader displays farm produce in Kakamega town on December 20, 2020. Farmers said Covid-19 has affected businesses compared to the previous year when they recorded high profits. [Benjamin Sakwa, Standard] The Agriculture ministry is scaling up the e-voucher system through which smallholder farmers access farm inputs at subsidised rates as among measures to help the economy recover from the devastating impact of the Covid-19 pandemic. The system, where farmers get vouchers to buy inputs from participating agro-dealers, is currently in use across 12 counties but the minist...

The agro-dealers claim the money from the government.

Share this article It has been six months since Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael and the Green Party signed off on the 'Our Shared Future' Programme for Government. In it, the coalition parties pledged to reform and reimagine public life. Among topics it covered are greater diversity and gender equality in local government, reform of the Oireachtas - as well as electoral reform. In a similar vein they promised Constitutional reform - with referendums planned on housing and extending the presidential vote to Irish citizens abroad. But in the more immediate term, the parties want to make a difference in...