APPENDIX.
These regulations with regard to the importation of coffee
have been purposely made stringent because since coffee growing
was started no pest or disease from any other part of the world
has been introduced and, as we have a considerable number of
indigenous pests and diseases which depreciate the yield and
which in some instances are difficult to control, every measure
possible must be taken to prevent the introduction of others.
(I) Cotton seed except in transit for re-export. Permission,
however, to import cotton seed will be granted if: —
(1) Imported into the Colony for use therein through
Kilindini, Mombasa, or any other port or place of entry
as may be approved by the Director of Agriculture on
the application of the importer.
2) The consignment thereof is accompanied by a certificate
under the seal of the Department of Agriculture of the
country from which it is consigned to the effect that it
has been fumigated within one month before consign-
ment to the Colony or that it is free from pest or
disease.
All cotton seed unaccompanied by a certificate as
specified in sub-clause (2) hereof shall be delivered by
the importer or his agent to an inspector for fumigation
at the port or place of entry (or elsewhere as may be
directed by the Director of Agriculture) and shall be
removed by the importer or his agent immediately after
such fumigation.
Any cotton seed imported in contravention of this clause
may be detained and destroyed or otherwise dealt with
as the Director of Agriculture may direct.
Such, then, are the regulations governing the importation of
plants and seeds into the Colony and Protectorate of Kenya.
To summarise briefly:
1. Certain plants and seeds are prohibited entry, viz.: hemp
narcotics.
» Others, on account of their liability to carry certain serious
diseases, which at present are not known to occur here, are
allowed in only under permit from the Department of
Agriculture.
3. Others not included in the above two categories should
preferably be obtained from reputable sources of supply.
t. All consignments, whether admitted by permit or not, or
whether accompanied by a certificate or not are still liable
to inspection, treatment or destruction.
The regulations may, at first sight, seem cumbersome or even
redundant, but since Plant Import Inspection was inaugurated in
1908, as far as we are aware at present, no insect pest has been
introduced and only two diseases, viz., mosaic on sugar cane and die
back of apples and pears.
Before 1908, two insect pests have been introduced, namely,
Red Scale and Cottony Cushion Scale on citrus.
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