Registration of farmers in 24 pilot counties is underway ahead of the importation of 500 metric tonnes of sunflower seeds from Zambia. According to Ministry of Agriculture officials, the seeds will be in Kenya in two weeks time ahead of the November to December short rains and will be the first step in the state’s […]
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As part of the government’s ongoing effort to streamline Kenya’s tea sector, it is implementing Section 37 (1) & 40 of the Tea Act, 2020 which will regulate the transportation of the green leaf by tea factories and the registration of commercial green tea leaves transporters. Transportation of green leaf by tea factories As part
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According to the Central Bank of Kenya’s July Agriculture Sector Survey farmers have raised concerns about the Ministry of Agriculture (MoA) using the North Rift planting season as the benchmark for issuing subsidized planting and top-dressing fertilizer. They argued that regions are not homogenous and there could be timing differences in planting and harvesting which
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