{"id":6782,"date":"2019-11-25T11:50:44","date_gmt":"2019-11-25T08:50:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=6782"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:42","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:42","slug":"fertiliser-standard-spells-doom-for-uhurus-food-safety-agenda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/11\/25\/fertiliser-standard-spells-doom-for-uhurus-food-safety-agenda\/","title":{"rendered":"Fertiliser Standard Spells Doom For Uhuru&#8217;s Food Safety Agenda"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>By Daily\nNation<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This one\nis to President Uhuru Kenyatta \u2014 and if he has to turn around the agriculture\nsector, and save one of his Big Four agenda initiatives from a dramatic\ncollapse, he will have to address the cadmium question personally, and remove\nthe cap placed on the standard on fertiliser imports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cadmium is\na mineral used in the production of fertiliser. Recently, President Kenyatta\nbowed to pressure from commercial banks and removed the cap on interest rates.\nHe can do it for agriculture, if he wants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Most\nlikely, the President has not been told the truth about why it is cheaper to\ngrow maize in Ethiopia and Tanzania than in Kenya and must be listening to lots\nof cock-and-bull stories from the Ministry of Agriculture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It has all\nto do with the politics of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nation.co.ke\/news\/Farmers-risk-missing-out-on-cheap-fertiliser-as-row-rages\/1056-4948292-thte3sz\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">fertiliser procurement<\/a>&nbsp;after the Kenya Bureau of\nStandards (Kebs) began playing in the super league with cartel networks that\nhave for ages controlled the trade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Let us not mince words here, there have been attempts to lock out cheap-priced fertiliser from the country and Kenya is at the centre of global market wars, and it is our farmers who are suffering.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nation.co.ke\/news\/Food-security-agenda-hinges-on-fertiliser-standard\/1056-5359780-i798hwz\/index.html\">Read more>><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Daily Nation This one is to President Uhuru Kenyatta \u2014 and if he has to turn around the agriculture sector, and save one of his Big Four agenda initiatives&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6783,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6782\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}