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| Deputy President William Ruto samples some Macadamia nuts at Wondernut International EPZ Ltd, where he officially opened the macademia nut processing factory. Looking on is Cabinet Secretary Industralization and Enterprise Development, Aden Mohamed(in glasses) and CEO Bobby Thomas in Athi River, Machakos County yesterday. |
Nairobi; Kenya: Nuts and oils crops farmers have a reason to smile, following the formation of the Nuts and Oils Crops (NOC) directorate under the Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Authority (AFFA) formed a month ago. In the new agricultural reforms, NOC will now roll out technical facilitation and marketing promotion aspects of the agricultural sub-sector aimed at boosting production and value addition chains for the crops.
While growers of other major crops like tea, coffee, maize, pyrethrum, sisal, sugarcane and cotton have been relatively benefiting from facilitation by the State, those engaging in nuts and oils crops had no such formal support structures. Formerly the Kenya Coconut Development Authority (KCDA), NOC now has a wider mandate to include cashew nuts, macadamia, groundnuts, palm oil, simsim, sunflowers and other nuts and oils producing crops.
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