{"id":208749,"date":"2025-10-02T07:35:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T05:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-cs-kagwe-declares-war-on-aflatoxin-in-animal-feeds\/"},"modified":"2025-10-02T07:35:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T05:35:09","slug":"kenya-cs-kagwe-declares-war-on-aflatoxin-in-animal-feeds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-cs-kagwe-declares-war-on-aflatoxin-in-animal-feeds\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: CS Kagwe Declares War On Aflatoxin in Animal Feeds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">Nairobi \u2014 <em>Agriculture and Livestock Development Cabinet Secretary Mutahi Kagwe has warned that Kenya&#8217;s ambition to expand dairy exports will stall unless farmers and feed manufacturers eliminate aflatoxin contamination and embrace a quality-based payment system.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">Speaking at the official opening of the 17th African Dairy Conference and Exhibition (AFDA17) in Nairobi, Kagwe said contaminated animal feeds were undermining Kenya&#8217;s competitiveness in international markets.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">&#8220;No export without quality&#8230;.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202510020072.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 East Africa <a title=\"Kenya\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/east-africa\/kenya\/\">Kenya<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nairobi \u2014 Agriculture and Livestock Development Cabinet Secretary Mutahi Kagwe has warned that Kenya&#8217;s ambition to expand dairy exports will stall unless farmers and feed manufacturers eliminate aflatoxin contamination and embrace a quality-based payment system. Speaking at the official opening of the 17th African Dairy Conference and Exhibition (AFDA17) in Nairobi, Kagwe said contaminated animal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":208750,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[52472,258,256,11066,7030,7217,37740,4688,430,257,254,6618],"class_list":["post-208749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-aflatoxin","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-animal","tag-declares","tag-feeds","tag-kagwe","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-war"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208749\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}