Topic: AFA
AFA clears 152 coffee dealers to operate in Kenya for 2025/26 season
Aug 26, 2025 at 01:14 PM
A total of 152 companies have been cleared by the Agriculture and Food Authority (AFA) to trade in coffee during the 2025/26 financial year, signalling the government’s push to r...
Blow to government plan for duty-free rice as court issues conservatory orders
Aug 11, 2025 at 06:22 PM
The High Court in Kerugoya has temporarily blocked a government directive that would have allowed 500,000 metric tonnes of milled white rice to enter Kenya without import duty, pen...
Kenya suspends avocado, macadamia exports to curb immature harvests
Oct 23, 2024 at 09:29 AM
Kenya is set to temporarily halt the export of avocados and macadamia nuts in a move aimed at preserving the quality of its agricultural produce in the global market, authorities c...
Coffee farmers hopeful as State grants cooperatives direct export licences
Oct 10, 2024 at 02:23 PM
In a move aimed at bolstering the fortunes of Kenyan coffee farmers, the government has announced its intention to grant export licenses directly to primary coffee cooperative soci...
KNCCI, Cereal Growers Association raise concerns over new export levy by AFA
May 31, 2024 at 11:59 AM
The Kenya National Chamber of Commerce and Industry (KNCCI) and the Cereal Growers Association (CGA) have voiced significant concerns over the recent imposition of a 0.3 per cent l...
Millers scramble to verify Sh4 billion subsidy supply before Friday deadline
Aug 31, 2023 at 06:33 PM
The National Assembly Committee on Agriculture and Livestock has given millers who supplied maize flour under the Sh4 billion subsidy programme until Friday to provide proof of del...
Tea prices dip globally due to high production
Apr 29, 2021 at 02:17 PM
The continued high production of tea and global oversupply have dipped average tea prices for factories managed by Kenya Tea Development Agency (KTDA) dip to USD2.22 in the nine mo...
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