Bruno Linyiru, director common of the Agriculture and Food Authority (AFA), mentioned that in latest weeks, a number of consignments of uncooked macadamia nuts alleged to be in transit by means of Kenya have been intercepted at varied border factors.
“Exporters from overseas states meaning to commerce in uncooked macadamia are due to this fact suggested to make use of various overseas ports of exit and to chorus from routing uncooked macadamia produced by means of Kenya,” Linyiru mentioned in a press release issued in Nairobi, the capital of Kenya.
China, the United States, the Middle East, and Europe are some main markets the place Kenyan farmers export their produce.
The AFA added that the export ban goals to help native farmers and processors by selling home worth addition by means of native processing and industrial improvement.