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"content": "Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for years and years during the life of my grandparents and great grandparents, the miraa community in Meru has produced miraa, which is fondly referred to as the “green gold of Meru”. In 1974, the late President, Mzee Jomo Kenyatta, had miraa removed from the Schedule of crops under the Horticultural Crop Development Authority (HCDA). Farmers, businessmen and elders petitioned him to issue a decree, so that the Miraa Prohibitive Ordinance could be repealed. In 1976, the Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Agriculture removed miraa from the Export Control Regulations by the HCDA. Subsequently, there has not been any legislation that has been governing the cultivation and sale of miraa as a recognised cash crop in Kenya. Past efforts that have been made by various local universities and research institutes have not found their way to either the office of any Government officer or the Ministry concerned with agriculture. Even the latest enacted legislation, which is the Crops Act (Act No.13) of 2013, does not classify miraa as one of the scheduled crops. In that Act, the scheduled crops have been properly designated. Inter alia, they include tea, coffee, cotton, sunflower, beans, wheat, maize and sugarcane."
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