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CMA sets deadline for coffee brokers to get fresh licences Wednesday March 17 2021 By BRIAN NGUGI Summary The Capital Markets Authority (CMA) has set a July 1 deadline for coffee brokers to get new licences under rules introduced last year to weed out cartels. CMA had last year allowed the brokers to continue trading under the old rules as they worked towards full compliance of the CMA regulations. The Capital Markets Authority (CMA) has set a July 1 deadline for coffee brokers to get new licences under rules introduced last year to weed out cartels. CMA had last year allowed the brokers to c...

THE STANDARD By Nehemiah Okwembah | March 17th 2021 at 00:00:00 GMT +0300 Kilifi North MP Owen Baya addressing journalists at his home in Kilifi town [Maureen Ongala, Standard] Coconut and cashew nut farming will qualify for State funding and marketing if President Uhuru Kenyatta assents to a new Bill that seeks to make them cash crops. The Bill passed by the National Assembly last Thursday is aimed at including cashew nut and coconut to the first schedule in the Crops Act of 2013 just like coffee, tea, and sugar cane. If President Kenyatta signs the amendments, the State will be obligated ...

THE STANDARD FINANCIAL STANDARD Farmers plant saplings in a rice field on the outskirts of Ahmedabad, India, July 5, 2019. [REUTERS/Amit Dave] RELATED VIDEOS Share this story More money should go to education and health The last 12 months have truly been miserable, thanks to Covid-19. No one foresaw the kind of damage this disease would cause. Virus showed State neglect of special needs schools Disabled children were left out of online lessons which lacked the special aspects that make learning easy for them. MOST READ

THE STANDARD FINANCIAL STANDARD Farmers plant saplings in a rice field on the outskirts of Ahmedabad, India, July 5, 2019. [REUTERS/Amit Dave] RELATED VIDEOS Share this story More money should go to education and health The last 12 months have truly been miserable, thanks to Covid-19. No one foresaw the kind of damage this disease would cause. Virus showed State neglect of special needs schools Disabled children were left out of online lessons which lacked the special aspects that make learning easy for them. MOST READ

THE STANDARD BUSINESS NEWS By Correspondent | February 17th 2021 The High Court in Embu has dismissed with costs an application by the Agriculture and Food Authority (AFA) to be enjoined in a petition challenging sections of the 2020 Tea Act. The court said the AFA no longer has a mandate in the management of tea matters. In a ruling delivered on Monday, High Court Judge Lucy Njuguna said the new Tea Act had conferred tea management mandate to the Tea Board of Kenya, noting that the crop had been delinked from the Crops Act – under which AFA is established. “The Tea Act 2020 establishes ...