{"id":617,"date":"2019-05-09T06:21:25","date_gmt":"2019-05-09T06:21:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stak.or.ke\/congress\/?page_id=617"},"modified":"2025-09-11T21:47:57","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T18:47:57","slug":"message-from-the-executive-officer","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.stak.or.ke\/congress\/message-from-the-executive-officer\/","title":{"rendered":"Message from the Executive Officer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>MESSAGE FROM THE Ag EXECUTIVE OFFICER (EO),<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0Seed Trade Association of Kenya (STAK)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On behalf of STAK, it gives me great delight to welcome you to the STAK Annual Congress &amp; Expo which will take place from 5<sup>th<\/sup>-6<sup>th<\/sup> November 2025, at Kenya School of Monetary Studies. The theme this year is <strong>\u201cUnlocking Seed Potential: Policy, Technology &amp; Partnerships.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As the national coordination body for seed matters in the private sector, STAK is committed to fostering a conducive environment for seed business operations, ensuring the production of sufficient certified seeds for farmers, and facilitating the seamless movement of seeds within the country and across the region. We achieve this by advocating for favorable policies and regulations through robust public-private partnerships.<strong>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Congress expects the participation of delegates involved in the seed industry including government officials, development partners, research institutions, universities, agrochemical industry, processors, machinery suppliers, agro dealers, farmers and media.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MESSAGE FROM THE Ag EXECUTIVE OFFICER (EO), \u00a0Seed Trade Association of Kenya (STAK) On behalf of STAK, it gives me great delight to welcome you to the STAK Annual Congress &amp; Expo which will take place from 5th-6th November 2025, at Kenya School of Monetary Studies. The theme this year is \u201cUnlocking Seed Potential: Policy, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2994,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"useful-information-template.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-617","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stak.or.ke\/congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stak.or.ke\/congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stak.or.ke\/congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stak.or.ke\/congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stak.or.ke\/congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=617"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.stak.or.ke\/congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3206,"href":"https:\/\/www.stak.or.ke\/congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/617\/revisions\/3206"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stak.or.ke\/congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stak.or.ke\/congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}