Coconut, cashews to be cash crops if Bill passes

Kilifi North MP Owen Baya addressing journalists at his home in Kilifi town [Maureen Ongala, Standard]

Coconut and cashew nut farming will qualify for State funding and marketing if President Uhuru Kenyatta assents to a new Bill that seeks to make them cash crops.

The Bill passed by the National Assembly last Thursday is aimed at including cashew nut and coconut to the first schedule in the Crops Act of 2013 just like coffee, tea, and sugar cane.