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USAID Deputy Assistant Administrator for Resilience, Environment and Food Security Mia Beers and Makueni county governor Mutula Kilonzo junior during the tour of the projects./Lydia Ngoolo.

Governor Mutula Kilonzo urges public to explore Makueni’s regenerative farming practices

Makueni County Governor Mutula Kilonzo has urged the public to explore the county and learn farm practices. He noted that farmers are now benefitting with regenerative agriculture and conservation based agricultural practices which are aimed at transforming livelihoods in the county courtesy of USAID. The governor was speaking during the tour of water projects developed…

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Co-operative and SMEs Cabinet Secretary Wycliffe Oparanya during his swearing in.

CS Wycliffe Oparanya honored for exemplary leadership

In a momentous celebration of academic excellence, Hon. FCPA Wycliffe Ambetsa Oparanya, EGH, Cabinet Secretary for the Ministry of Cooperatives and Micro Small and Medium Enterprises Development, has been awarded an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters (Honoris Causa) by Masinde Muliro University of Science and Technology. The conferment will take place on December 11, 2024,…

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Kenya Sugar Board unveils new guidelines to boost sugar industry production and efficiency

The Kenya Sugar Board has launched guidelines which will be used by farmers and other industry players moving forward. The document known as Kenya Sugar Industry Growers Guide enumerates how farmers will go about their activities in order to ramp up production. It comes barley a month after President William Ruto assented the Sugar Bill…

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Government seeks to boost local coffee consumption amid declining production

The Kenyan government is making bold moves to increase local coffee consumption to boost revenues, even as the country grapples with a drop in production. During the launch of its strategic plan yesterday, the New Kenya Planters Cooperative Union (KPCU) revealed that domestic coffee consumption remains worryingly low at just 19 percent. To address this,…

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Nyeri governor launches Youth in Agriculture Programme

The Council of Governors (CoG) Vice Chair and Nyeri Governor, H.E. Mutahi Kahiga, has launched the Tupande Youth in Agriculture Program in partnership with the Mastercard Foundation and CoG. The initiative, unveiled at White Rhino Hotel in Nyeri, aims to inspire youth to pursue agriculture-based careers, enhancing agricultural productivity in Kenya. The program, implemented under…

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Some of the Zone 7 tea directors from Meru and Tharaka Nithi counties during the presser

Tea directors tell Agriculture PS to keep off tea factories

Tea directors from Meru and Tharaka Nithi counties have told the  Agriculture Principal Secretary Paul Rono to keep off and stop meddling with tea factories issues because the government has no powers to interfere with private entities. The directors challenged the authority of Agriculture PS following his recent directives regarding the troubled Miciimikuru Factory. During an…

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Kenya Seed Company director Sammy Chepsiror

Kenya Seed Company admits there is a shortage of maize seeds in the country

Kenya Seed Company has admitted that indeed there was a shortage of maize seed  in the country. The company director Sammy Chepsiror informed the National Assembly Committee on Agriculture and Livestock, which is probing the causes of shortage and increase in maize seeds prices that the shortage was as a result of general increase in…

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Principal Secretary for Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) Development, Susan Mang'eni and other members

Trade Committee finalizes review of public input on Business Laws (Amendment) Bill, 2024

The Departmental Committee on Trade, Industry, and Cooperatives has finalized its review of a report on the input of the public on the Business Laws (Amendment) Bill, 2024. The Committee, chaired by Embakasi North MP James Gakuya examined the report a day after concluding a three-day public participation exercise. The Bill, sponsored by Majority Leader…

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Kenya’s Jude Chesire Elected Vice Chairman of International Sugar Organization

The acting chief executive officer of the Kenya Sugar Board Mr. Jude Chesire has been elected the vice chairman of the International Sugar Organization (ISO). The elections took place during a council meeting held at November 29, 2024, at I Canada Square in Canary Wharf London. Mr Edgar Herrera the executive director of LAICA of…

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