Kenya
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Kenya’s quest to import tax-free essential goods receives opposition from local manufacturers
KENYA – The Kenyan government plans to import large quantities of rice, cooking oil, sugar, wheat, and beans duty-free through the Kenya National Trade Corporation…
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Kenya locks out millers from duty-free maize imports over prices
KENYA – Kenyan maize meal consumers may further dip deeper into their pockets as millers fallout with the government over maize import prices. Kenya has…
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UN Women supports project aimed at lowering feed prices for poultry farmers in Kenya
KENYA – The United Nations Women (UN Women) has donated a feed mixing machine valued at KES310,000 (US$2,458) to women in poultry farming in Kenya…
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Kenya to boost edible oil production to offset US$716M import burden
KENYA – The government of Kenya is planning to stimulate domestic oil crop production from 5% to 25%, in a bid to reduce the country’s…
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Maize production in sub-Saharan Africa to decline by about 40 percent by 2050: World Bank report
SUB-SAHARA AFRICA – The World Bank forecasts maize production in sub-Saharan Africa to decline by about 40 percent by 2050 unless mechanization is fast-tracked, Star…