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FARMKENYA INITIATIVE Market By Japheth Makau | March 12th 2021 at 07:30:00 GMT +0300 Kenya will resume the multi-billion lucrative European market in September this year. [Sammy Omingo, Standard] Kenya will resume the multi-billion lucrative European market in September this year after an eight-year break following an attack of mangoes by fruit flies. The Agriculture and Food Authority (AFA)–Horticulture Crops Directorate (HCD) states that resumption of the EU market is informed by the drastic reduction of fruit flies infestation in the leading mango growing counties. HCD assistant director in charge of regulations and compliance Wilfred Yako explained that the recommencing of the profitable EU export market is further guided by the successful implementation of strategies to tame the pests such as the Komesha Fruit Fly Campaign launched two years ago and offering of traps to small-scale farmers. ....
THE STANDARD By Everlyne Kwamboka | February 4th 2021 at 00:00:00 GMT +0300 Starehe MP Charles Kanyi alias Jaguar risks spending six months in jail for disobeying a court order. Starehe MP Charles Kanyi alias Jaguar risks spending six months in jail for disobeying a court order barring him from invading a multi-million shilling property near Nairobi’s Landhies Road. The MP has been summoned by a magistrate’s court to show cause why he should not go to jail for disobeying court orders. Issuing the summons, Chief Magistrate Ada Obura also told the MP and directors of David Engineering Limited not to enter or occupy the suit property pending inter partes hearing to be conducted virtually on February 16. ....