State to rein on cartels swindling farmers their earnings

Kenya: The Government will register afresh all crop dealers in the next one month with a view to cracking down on increasing cartels swindling farmers of their hard earned income through unethical trade practices.

Agriculture, Fisheries, and Food Authority (AFFA), the body mandated to regulate all crops listed in the First Schedule of the Crops Act, 2013 warns that cartels have infiltrated the sector and are thus controlling the entire value chain at the expense of the major producer – the farmer.