By George Munene The Horticultural Crops Directorate (HCD) has reviewed the minimum avocado dry matter percentage (DM%) post-harvest to 24 per cent for Hass and Fuerte avocadoes meant for export. This is in lieu of the numerous complaints received on the quality of avocados imported to the European Union and the United Arab Emirates. “We …
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Samuel Ndirangu, an Israeli trained agronomist is teaching farmers on crop production in a move aimed at helping them produce quality and safe crops for local consumption and export to the international market. According to the Horticultural Crops Directorate, Kenya’s fresh produce at times face rejection in the international market due to excessive application of …
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Flower farmer carrying harvested floweres. Claspedia flower variety has a shelf life of one month and fetches an average of 0.7 Euro cents translating to about seven shillings per flower stem. Farmers from Nyandarua, Kinangop constituency have turned to growing of flowers such as planum eryngium, white agapanthus and standard eryngium among others that can earn …
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