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Crop Production and Livestock (Seed and Ware Potato Production and Marketing Standards) Rules, 2005 (L.N. No. 44 of 2005).

Country/Territory
Kenya
Document type
Regulation
Date
2005
Source
FAO, FAOLEX
Original source
Kenya subsidiary legislation supplement No. 38 to the Official Gazette of 27 May 2005, pp. 307-324.
Subject
Food & nutrition, Cultivated plants
Keyword
Food quality control/food safety Standards Plant production Vegetables/legumes Planting material/seeds Transport/storage Classification/declassification
Geographical area
Africa, Eastern Africa
Abstract

These Rules set out standards for the production of seed potatoes and of potatoes used for consumption purposes only (“ware potatoes”), for the storage of seed and ware potatoes, for grading and packaging, for transportation of potatoes and for processing of potatoes and (frozen) chips. They also provide that inspectors may use certain powers of inspection, search, seizure, detention, etc. and prescribe offences and penalties. The Schedules contain more standards and prescribe characteristics and potatoes. (16 rules completed by 9 Schedules)

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