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Agency bolsters fight against fake seeds

From left: Kenya Plant Health Inspectorate Service (Kephis) General Manager James Ang’awa hands over a greenhouse to Mukuria Primary School in Embu East sub-county as the school headteacher Cathyln Mwaniki and former Embu Senator Lenny Kivuti watch. (Joseph Muchiri, Standard)

Kenya Plant Health Inspectorate Service (Kephis) has launched a program to impound fake and low quality seeds offered to unsuspecting farmers across the country.

The program dubbed Mulika Mbegu Mbaya will ensure that the seeds packaged and sold to farmers are of good quality and certified by Kephis.

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