HOW NEW SAFETY RULES WILL LOCK OUT MILLIONS OF KENYAN VEGETABLE AND FRUIT FARMERS FROM MARKET.
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Kenya Government is planning to enforce stringent farm regulations on production and sale of fruits and vegetables. Referred to as KS1758 Kenyan standard food safety measure, it consists of 500 new rules for farmers which if enacted could cut off supplies of over 90 per cent of the country’s locally consumed fruit and vegetables by Prevent mor e than three million farmers from selling fruits and vegetables in the Kenyan market. This in a nutshell means, only large-scale farmers, companies and importers will be permitted to grow, sell and or processes fruit and vegetables in Kenya. All the farmers will be required to adhere to the standards, which require them to register themselves giving their ID numbers, Land registration (Title-deeds) and keep farm records for annual submission to pertinent authorities and their produce buyers. The reason the farmer should submit records to the buyer is that the law proposes heavy penalties for traders ...