Kenya seeks UN help in lifting ban on exporting of miraa

Cabinet Secretary for Agriculture Willy Bett address the media on June 13, 2017 after he met with Miraa farmers in Nyambene region at Maua Polytechnic. The CS said that passengers should not be restricted to board local planes with miraa, stating that such orders were a thing of the past. Photo by Peter Muthomi

The national government has promised a raft of measures to help the ailing miraa sector.

Agriculture Cabinet Secretary Willy Bett told miraa farmers that the Government has petitioned the UN for the interpretation of a convention on drug trade that European nations had used to ban miraa exports.