You make it sound like we have bee industry. There is none. Heavily regulated sectors like Tea and Dairy and horticulture are billion dollars. While livestock, bees and such other sectors zero.
Neither the poor bee keepers nor the honey consumers are benefitting- zero standards - health issues - zero export potential - no growth - just people wasting their time selling honey on the road side. Mostly fake honey or like gov says very bad honey.
If we have to grow honey into good business - both for local consumption - and later export - we have to regulate - but before that - we have to organize them.
We have to create synergies. We modernize the industries. And we start creating INDUSTRIES.
Let not talk about Kenyatta dominance in Dairy Like it a bad thing. IT IS NOT.
Nobody benefit from informality - or Juakali. Not people. Not the enterprenuers. Not the enviroment. Not the gov.
You are barking up the wrong tree chief.
A few basic facts:
1. 75% of the food consumed in this country is produced by smallholder farmers not the big ag you are infatuated with. You are stuck in a time warp, in America the most profitable farms are the small organic farms, the also have the highest yields.
2. The point of contention in this Bill is it bars farmers from keeping bees for commercial purposes unless they are registered under the Apiary Act, why? Most affected will be RV farmers btw. It is very retrogressive.
3. The cost of compliance with these regulations will basically kill the small holding bee keepers, who ironically produce the highest quality honey depriving consumers of goods.
4. Local pastoralist, agrarian and forest-dwelling communities have practiced beekeeping since time immemorial, what gives the government a right to tell them they can't make their livelihoods from their heritage?
Ni ukoloni tu5. This bill will drive smallholder beekeepers out of honey production and pave the way for multinational corporations under the guise of regulating the sector, the same pattern repeats, capital leaving Africa for Ulaya and China.
Use you brain sometimes, don't ever trust authorities. You assert you are with hustlers but in reality your a big ag big industry, big business supporter. You can't have your cake and eat it.