Last year the Agricultural Ministry in Kenya was found in a tight spot over the illegal selling of relief food aid in the domestic market. This situation distorted local prices and sidelined local farmers who had worked hard to produce food under drought conditions. This year an equally degrading story was unraveled by a local News network NTV Kenya, that has found A private sector firm illegally selling government subsidized fertilizers in the Kenyan market. Fertilizers, which are destined for small-scale farms in an effort to improve yields, never reached their proposed destinations. Yields would have been particularly high given that Kenya has in recent months experienced El Niño rain phenomenon, resulting yields would have secured food sources in a food insecure nation, for the rest of the year. Once again Agriculture efficiency is battered by the degree of corruption alive in Kenya.

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