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Kenya pushes for uniform ban on toxic farm inputs across COMESA

Agriculture Cabinet Secretary Mutahi Kagwe. [MoAL]

Kenya has called on the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA)  member states to adopt a unified ban on hazardous pesticides and counterfeit farm inputs.

Speaking on Friday, August 8, at the 9th Joint COMESA ministerial meeting in Lusaka, Zambia, the  Cabinet Secretary for Agriculture and Livestock Development, Mutahi Kagwe, said products banned in one member state should be restricted across the bloc.

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