GOVERNMENT says during this farming season, it has given loans under the Sustainable Agriculture Financing Facility (SAFF) to about 3,000 farmers, amounting to over K400 million. SAFF is a programme under the Ministry of Agriculture which provides financial resources to small-scale farmers, cooperatives, and agro-entrepreneurs. In an interview, Ministry of Agriculture acting Director Agribusiness and Marketing Nicholas Mainza disclosed that government had now attracted five banks under the facility. “What has happened is that this year we had to fight hard again looking for resources because most of the borrowers were affected by the drought so it means that most of the amount of money that was given out by the banks again was not recovered. But that was a...