Kenya Plant Health Inspectorate Service (KEPHIS) is a regulatory body established under the State Corporations Act (Cap 446) pursuant to Legal Notice No. 305 of 18th October 1996. The Corporation commenced operations in 1997.
This Service Charter is a commitment by KEPHIS to improve service delivery to clients and other stakeholders. It also serves to enhance public awareness of the organization’s regulatory role.
Vision
Healthy plants, safe trade, and sustainable agro-environment for a prosperous Kenya.
Mission
To provide a science-based regulatory service by assuring plant health, quality of agricultural inputs and produce for food security, globally competitive agriculture, and sustainable development.
Core Values
The guiding principles in the operations of KEPHIS are:
- Customer focus
- Professionalism and Integrity
- Teamwork
- Results Oriented
- Innovation and CreativityMaktaba ya Huduma
- Corporate Social Sustainability
Services Offered by KEPHIS
- Distinctness, Uniformity, and Stability (DUS) tests for grant of Plant Breeders Rights.
- National Performance Trials (value for cultivation) for crop variety release and commercialization.
- Registration of seed merchants.
- Licensing of seed sellers.
- Registration of seed growers.
- Seed field inspections.
- Inspection of seeds during processing.
- Seed sampling and testing.
- Post control verification.
- Post-certification surveys.
- Inspection of import and export plant materials.
- Plant quarantine.
- Pest and disease diagnosis.
- Enforcement of biosafety requirements.
- Analyses of agricultural inputs (fertilizers, soil, agrochemicals, water, manure, irrigation water, and others).
- Agro-chemical residue analyses in agricultural produce and animal tissues.
- Environmental monitoring for contaminants.
- Conformity assessment.
- Trade facilitation, training, and technical support.
- Farmer advisory services.
Service Charter
English Service Charter Click to Download the KEPHIS English Service Charter
Maktaba ya Huduma Click to Download the KEPHIS Swahili Service Charter
Service Delivery Charter - Audio
Service Delivery Charter - English Audio Click to Download
Mkataba wa huduma - Kiswahili Audio Click to Download
