Government will spend Sh 6 billion on a maize subsidy to make maize flour affordable to Kenyans, President Uhuru Kenyatta has said. President said the money would be used to buy all the maize offered for sale by farmers this season under the Government’s Strategic Food Reserve programme to boost food security and sustain affordable prices for maize flour. To boost our food security and sustain affordable price for maize flour, the Government will buy, under the Strategic Food Reserve, all the maize offered for sale by our farmers during this 2017-2018 season.