{"id":235690,"date":"2026-06-08T16:08:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T14:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-kagwe-pushes-for-tougher-action-against-fake-farm-inputs\/"},"modified":"2026-06-08T16:08:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T14:08:09","slug":"kenya-kagwe-pushes-for-tougher-action-against-fake-farm-inputs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-kagwe-pushes-for-tougher-action-against-fake-farm-inputs\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Kagwe Pushes for Tougher Action Against Fake Farm Inputs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">Nairobi \u2014 <em>Kenya has called for stricter global standards on agricultural chemicals and stronger action against counterfeit farm inputs, warning that the continued circulation of substandard pesticides threatens public health, farmer livelihoods, and export markets.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">Speaking at the World Farmers Organization meeting in Nairobi, Agriculture and Livestock Development Cabinet Secretary Mutahi Kagwe said developing countries should not become destinations for agrochemicals that have been deemed&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202606080700.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 Kenya has called for stricter global standards on agricultural chemicals and stronger action against counterfeit farm inputs, warning that the continued circulation of substandard pesticides threatens public health, farmer livelihoods, and export markets. Speaking at the World Farmers Organization meeting in Nairobi, Agriculture and Livestock Development Cabinet Secretary Mutahi Kagwe said developing countries [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":235691,"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":[6394,258,256,6891,10402,7475,37740,4688,430,257,16296,254,30259],"class_list":["post-235690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-action","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-fake","tag-farm","tag-inputs","tag-kagwe","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-news","tag-pushes","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tougher"],"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\/235690","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=235690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235690\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}