Gov’t grants waiver for maize imports
The government has granted a waiver of import duty capped at 540,000 metric tonnes of Maize to cereal traders to import the grain. This follows a warning by the Agriculture Cabinet
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Agriculture
Fish farmers advised to rear monosex fish breeds
Migori fish farmers have been urged to farm monosex fish instead of the traditionally used mixed sex breeds. Migori County Project Coordinator for Agriculture Business Development Programme (ABDP) Mr. Stanley Muloma
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Youth encouraged to pursue agriculture as a profession
The Principal Secretary (PS) for University Education and Research Amb. Simon Nabukwesi has encouraged young people to consider exploiting career opportunities in agriculture to earn a living. Speaking at Murang’a University
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Call for herb farming to meet the rising Herbal Tea demand
The government is encouraging tea producers to get involved in at least 40 per cent value addition of their total produce so that they could get more earnings. Most factories have
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Garissa targets to vaccinate over 600,000 livestock
More than 48,000 livestock have been vaccinated against goat plague (Jadheca) in an on-going joint exercise launched last week by Garissa County government in collaboration with the Save the Children
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