Register as a pyrethrum grower, dealer or processor
Agriculture and Food Authority - Miraa, Pyrethrum and Other Industrial Crops Directorate · sources read 2 Oct 2026
Pyrethrum farmers register with a licensed processor and sign a contract to sell their flowers to it. A processor needs AFA registration and then a processor licence (KSh 250,000, renewed at KSh 100,000), applied for on AFA IMIS.
- Fee
- KSh 250,000Processor licence (new)KSh 100,000Processor licence renewal
- Where
- Farmers: at a licensed pyrethrum processor. Dealers and processors: AFA's Miraa, Pyrethrum and Other Industrial Crops Directorate, online on AFA IMIS (imis.afa.go.ke).
What you need
- Processors: certificate of incorporation
- Processors: valid KRA tax compliance certificate
- Processors: title deed for the site
- Processors: project feasibility report (for the licence)
Steps
- Farmers: register with a licensed processor and sign a contract to deliver your flowers to them.
- Dealers: apply to AFA every year for a dealer certificate of registration.
- Processors: apply for a processor registration certificate on AFA IMIS (imis.afa.go.ke).
- Get a letter of no objection, build the plant, then tell AFA when you are ready for inspection.
- Pay KSh 250,000 for the processor licence and collect it on IMIS.
Watch out
- Once contracted, a farmer may sell flowers only to that processor, and the same land can't be registered with two processors.
- The letter of no objection lasts one year and can be renewed only once, so finish the plant in time.
- Before a processor licence is issued, AFA publishes a gazette notice for 30 days so the public can raise queries.
Who can apply
- Farmers: register with a licensed pyrethrum processor, not with AFA directly.
- Dealers: people who collect, transport, store or buy flowers for a licensed processor.
- Processors: anyone who wants to extract or process pyrethrum flowers or products.
Official sources (4)
- The Crops (Pyrethrum) Regulations, 2019 (text attached on the Kenya Trade Portal) infotradekenya.go.ke · read 2 Oct 2026
- Pyrethrum processor's licence (procedure 1273) infotradekenya.go.ke · read 2 Oct 2026
- Pyrethrum processor's registration certificate (procedure 1059) infotradekenya.go.ke · read 2 Oct 2026
- AFA IMIS imis.afa.go.ke · read 2 Oct 2026