Livestock Bill seeks to create six Boards to regulate the Sector.
By Dickson Odhiambo
January 8, 2020
Livestock Bill seeks to create six Boards to regulate the Sector.
A Bill targeting to regulate Livestock Sector in the country
will give room for the creation of six boards once it pass through Parliament
and becomes a law upon Presidential Assent.
The Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries has
developed the Draft Bill which will be presented to Parliament for debate soon.
Addressing the press after the official opening of a two day
county Stakeholders in Kisumu to discuss the Draft Livestock Bill 2019, Josephine Kamau
who works at the Department of Livestock in the Ministry of Agriculture,
Livestock and Fisheries said the Bill will create six boards which will help in
regulating the Livestock sector in the country.
She says some of the Boards that will be formed once the
Bill becomes the law include National Livestock Regulatory, The livestock and
Livestock Products Marketing Board, Kenya Veterinary Vaccines production
Institute, Kenya Agriculture Genetic Resource Center and Kenya National Tse tse
and Tripanosomiasis Eradication Council.
She says under the Bill, there is also proposal to have the
Kenya Animal Sciences School, adding that it will be situated under the
Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries.
“Those are some of the proposals that the Livestock Bill has
for the regulation of the Livestock Industry,” she says.
Kamau adds that once the Bill becomes a law then there will
be a well-coordinated Livestock sector in the country for the sake of all
Kenyans.
She further adds that Livestock is a key sector in the hence
needs to be well regulated, adding that under the Bill there is also the
proposal to register producers in the livestock industry in the country.
“This will enable us to know who owns which livestock in the
country after the registration is done,” she adds.
Kamau says by the end of this month, the Bill will be
presented to Parliament for the debate.
Chair of the County Executive Committee Members in charge of
Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries Caucus Mary Nzomo says the Bill is a good
move for the Livestock sector in the country.
She says the Bill will help in harmonizing the development
in the Sector.
Nzomo adds that the bill will also help in ensuring that
livestock products from this country remains competitively in the global
market.
She further says the Bill will also help in anchoring the
role of County Government in the Agricultural, Livestock and fisheries sector
as a devolved unit.
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