Draft Policies, Bills and Regulations
SDA POLICY DEVELOPMENT PROCESS DOCUMENTS
| Policy Name | Focus | Status | Document | Comments Form | Advert |
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| Draft National Agriculture Research System Policy 2021 | Develop a vibrant, coordinated, innovative and modern agricultural research system framework that will contribute to food and nutrition security and social-economic development. | Ministerial top level management consideration of the Policy and Joint Cabinet Memorandum for submission to Cabinet | DOWNLOAD | DOWNLOAD | DOWNLOAD |
| Draft Food Safety policy draft Submitted to Cabinet | Enhance consumer protection through safe food, from production to consumption | At Cabinet approval level | DOWNLOAD | ||
| Draft Kenya Tea Industry Policy 2023 | Facilitate growth and development of the tea industry in order to make it sustainable, globally competitive and enhance its contribution towards rural development, employment and wealth creation | Public participation | DOWNLOAD | ||
| Draft National Buffer Zones Policy for Conservation of Forests and other related ecosystems | Enhance sustainable forests and related ecosystem conservation for improved livelihoods. | Public participation | DOWNLOAD | ||
| Draft National Coffee Policy 2024 | Guide and regulate activities of stakeholders along the coffee value chain, for development and growth while protecting the property rights of the growers and other players. | Ministerial top level management consideration of the Policy and Joint Cabinet Memorandum for submission to Cabinet | DOWNLOAD | ||
| Draft National Food & Nutrition Security | Ensure that all Kenyans, throughout their life cycle, have access to safe, sufficient, and nutritious food to satisfy their nutritional needs for optimum health and well-being. | Drafting stage | DOWNLOAD | ||
| Draft Policy Framework For Sustainable Financing And Subsidy Management In Agriculture | Enhance agricultural productivity and food and nutrition security by improving access to financial resources for investment in the agriculture sector | Ministerial top level management consideration of the Policy and Joint Cabinet Memorandum for submission to Cabinet | DOWNLOAD | ||
| Draft Policy on Revitalization of the Sugar Industry 2025 submitted to cabinet | Revitalize the sugar industry and make it competitive and sustainable | At Cabinet approval level | DOWNLOAD |
| Name | Focus | Status | Document | Comments Form | Advert |
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| Draft Bukura Agriculture College Amendment Bill | Establish Bukura College of Agriculture and Technology as a successor to the Bukura Agricultural College, provide for the powers, functions and management of the College and for connected purposes. | County consultations | DOWNLOAD | DOWNLOAD | DOWNLOAD |
| Draft Agricultural Mechanization Bill 2021 | Provide for development, promotion and regulation of agricultural mechanization, for the establishment of an Agricultural Mechanization Board and for connected purposes. | Ministerial top level management consideration | DOWNLOAD | ||
| Draft Agricultural Soil Management Bill 2021 | Provide a comprehensive framework for the protection and management of agricultural soils, for the rehabilitation and restoration of degraded agricultural soils, to facilitate the implementation of sustainable approaches for the inclusive promotion of soil conservation measures, to improve land productivity through proper management of agricultural soils, and for connected purposes. | County consultations | DOWNLOAD | ||
| Draft Crops Act (Amendment) Bill, 2025 | AN ACT of parliament to amend the Crops Act 2013 | Awaiting National Validation | DOWNLOAD | ||
| Draft National Food Reserve & Trading Corporation Bill 2024 | Provide for establishment of National Food Reserve & Trading Corporation, establishment of the Food Balance Sheet Committee for purposes of price and stock stabilization and for connected purposes. | Ministerial top level management consideration of the Policy and Joint Cabinet Memorandum for submission to Cabinet | DOWNLOAD | ||
| Draft Nyayo Buffer Zones Development Corporation Bill, 2025 | Facilitate the establishment of buffer zones for the conservation of forests and other fragile ecosystems; establish the Nyayo Buffer Zones Development Corporation, and for connected purposes. | Public participation | DOWNLOAD | ||
| Food & Feed Safety Control Co-ordination Bill, 2023 | Regulate the importation, exportation, manufacture, acquisition, distribution, advertising, use and disposal of products used for the control of pests and for the organic function of plants , to establish the Pest Control Products Authority, and for connected purposes | Parliamentary process-National Assembly (Mediation Committee) | DOWNLOAD | ||
| Pest Control Products Bill, 2023 | Revitalize the sugar industry and make it competitive and sustainable | At Cabinet approval level | DOWNLOAD | ||
| Plant Protection Bill 2023 FINAL From AG | Provide for regulatory and institutional framework for the prevention of introduction, establishment and spread of plant pest; management of plant pests; facilitate safe trade in plants, plant products and other regulated articles, and for connected purposes | Parliamentary process-National Assembly | DOWNLOAD | ||
| Pyrethrum (Repeal) Bill,2024 | To repeal the Pyrethrum Act | Parliamentary process-National Assembly | DOWNLOAD | ||
| The KEPHIS Amendement Bill,2024 (2) | To amend the KEPHIS Act Cap 349 | Parliamentary process-National Assembly | DOWNLOAD |
| Name | Focus | Status | Document | Comments Form | RIA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Draft Agricultural Mechanization Regulation 2021 | Develop, promote and regulate the growth of the agricultural mechanization in Kenya | Drafting | DOWNLOAD | DOWNLOAD | DOWNLOAD |
| Agricultural Information and Resource Centre Order, 2025 | Institutionalization of Agricultural Information and Resource Centre | Initiation and drafting | DOWNLOAD | ||
| Draft Seeds and Plant Varieties (CABS) Regulations 2024 | a) Establish an institutional framework for the management of plant genetic resources in Kenya in accordance with the 2004 International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture; b) Securing community and farmers rights in accordance with section 27A of the Act; c) Facilitate conservation of plant genetic resources in Kenya; and, Objects 5 6 d) Facilitate access to and sharing of benefits arising from utilization of plant genetic resources for food and agriculture. | Awaiting 2nd SWAG and National validation | DOWNLOAD | ||
| Draft Crops (Blended and Composited Flours) Regulations, 2022 | Provide for the regulation of the milling and marketing of blended and composite flours. | At AG Office for legal drafting while awaiting Ministerial concurrence | DOWNLOAD | ||
| Draft Fertilizers and Animal Foodstuffs (Fertilizers) Regulations 2021 -Tom Mboya Labour College 27th May 2022 | Regulated the inorganic fertilizers | Ministerial top level management consideration | DOWNLOAD | ||
| Draft Seed and Plant Varieties (Forest Tree Seed) Regulations at AG | Regulate Forest Tree Seeds | At AG Office for legal drafting while awaiting Ministerial concurrence | DOWNLOAD | ||
| Draft Seed and plant varieties (Vegetatively propagating seeds) Regulations, 2025 | Provide for (a) procedures for the registration of seed producers and seed seller of vegetatively propagating seed; (b) procedures for the production, preparation and sale of vegetatively propagating seed.; and (c) the compliance and enforcement measures for persons dealing with vegetatively propagating seed. | At AG Office for legal drafting | DOWNLOAD |