Horticulture Directorate Updates

Agriculture and Food Authority (AFA) Board Chairman, Hon. Cornelly Serem this week presided over an Avocado Exporters meeting in Nairobi. The consultative forum was convened to discuss the quality of export Avocado. He affirmed that the Authority will be firm in ensuring that the players in the industry adhere to the requisite handling processes and…

The First National Avocado Conference, organized by the Agriculture and Food Authority North Rift Economic Block (NOREB) and Lake Region Economic Block (LREB) County Governments, aims to bring together stakeholders in the avocado value chain to enhance collaboration and address emerging industry issues. The conference will cover a range of topics related to the avocado…

The Horticultural Crops Directorate together with industry stakeholders has noted the increase of interceptions of Kenyan Beans and Peas in pod by the EU due to exceedance of pesticide residue with a lot of concern. Kenya may face stricter import measures if the trend continues which will impact negatively the strides made by the Horticulture…

The Authority is implementing Trade Facilitation Platform for imports and exports of horticulture produce which has been integrated with Integrated Customs Management System (iCMS). iCMS is a robust intelligent system that consolidates all customs cargo clearance processes to one point of access, to improve our customers’ experiences.HCD wishes to notify Exporters, Importers and Clearing Agents…