Pundit, who's crafting/passing these legislations?

[RV Kirgit]

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You may be fined Sh20,000 or face a jail term of six months or both if found guilty of selling uncertified seeds.

This is according to the revised Seeds and Plant Varieties Act of 2012, Part 2( on restrictions on sales of seeds of unindexed plant varieties.

The Kenyan Seed and Plant Varieties Act discourages farmers from selling or sharing seeds but in Tanzania and Uganda, a farmer is free to sell or share seeds.

https://www.the-star.co.ke/news/2021-12-28-farmers-shock-as-sharing-seeds-could-land-them-six-months-in-jail/


There were similar bills for bee, dairy, potatoes??

I also saw paper with some dutch NGO SNV engaging to craft potato act to "help" farmers...

[RV Kirgit]

Dutch farmers at work here

[Githunguri]

Who owns the major seed companies in Kenya and who will be Kenyan agent of GMO like Monsanto?

Legislation precedes licensing.

Very wrong move,I think we have a lazy civil society,idiot lawmakers and journalists to make enough noise.