Uganda asks Kenya to formalise trade in grain worth $325m

A trader ferries maize into Busia, Kenya, through one of the informal border crossing from Uganda. FILE PHOTO | NATION

Uganda is holding talks with Kenya to increase grain exports ranging between 600,000 and one million tonnes annually, in a deal that could earn the country an estimated $195 million to $325 million.

The revelation was made by Gen Salim Saleh, who heads Operation Wealth Creation, a government programme that was launched in 2013 to improve household incomes through increasing agricultural productivity, access to markets and higher earnings.