Horticultural Crops Directorate (HCD)

Exporter looking for ginger, garlic, okra, pumpkin for its growing markets

A Nairobi based exporter is urgently looking for fresh and high quality ginger, garlic, okra, pumpkin, yams and arrow roots to meet its expanding international markets. Luifarm Limited, grower and exporter of fresh fruits and vegetables particularly to the European Union (EU) markets and other African countries such as Djibouti has earned an extra market […]

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Flowers, fruits and vegetables export increases Kenya’s earnings by Sh89bn

Export of horticulture crops such as flowers, fruits and vegetables among others has earned Kenya Sh305bn in 2017 as compared to Sh216bn in the previous year translating to Sh89bn increase as spurred by compliance with the export market requirements by majority of exporters especially to the European Union (EU). In overal, the sales of horticultural

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Farmer triples his income by growing orange fleshed sweet potato

Orange fleshed sweet potatoes. Romanos Opato a farmer in Kisumu has more than tripled income by diversifying his farming activities as he makes cakes, mandazis, and porridge using mashed orange fleshed potato as the main ingredient as opposed to earning from the sales of the crop alone previously. He grows the crop on a two acre

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Government bans avocado exports on shortages

Horticultural Crops Directorate (HCD), which facilitates the development, promotion, coordination and regulation of the horticultural sub-sector in Kenya, has banned the export of hass and fuerte avocadoes which are the main exported avocado varieties in Kenya due to severe shortage leading to immature fruits in the market. According to the directorate the two varieties of

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Exporter looking for ginger, garlic, okra, pumpkin for its growing markets

Flowers, fruits and vegetables export increases Kenya’s earnings by Sh89bn

Farmer triples his income by growing orange fleshed sweet potato

Government bans avocado exports on shortages

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