The Nuts and Oil Crops Directorate of the Agriculture and Food Authority is mandated to develop, promote, and regulate scheduled nuts and oil crops. In implementing its mandate, the Directorate promotes initiatives aimed at ensuring sustainable industry development and growth through the execution of various directives in line with the Directorate's responsibilities.
As you are aware, the Cabinet Secretary, Ministry of Agriculture and. Livestock Development, issued a press statement announcing a ban on domestic Macadamia harvesting scheduled to take effect from 2nd November, 2024 until March 2025. This measure is to curb the harvesting and exporting of immature nuts, in an effort to protect the quality and sustainability of Kenya's macadamia industry.
In line with this directive, we call upon your cooperation with the Directorate's surveillance team, which will be conducting stock verification aimed at ensuring compliance with the directive by the Cabinet Secretary.
We look forward to your full compliance with this directive as well as the other regulatory requirements in the Crops Act, 2013 and the subsidiary legislation.
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