All Kenya articles – Page 13
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ArticlePassionfruit opportunity for Kenya
Focusing on sea freight and EurepGAP could be the answer for Kenya's passionfruit growers.
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ArticleKenyan call for private links
The USAID-funded Kenyan Horticultural Development Project (KHDP) is calling for robust links with the private sector to ensure the future of exports from Kenya.
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ArticleKenya seeks trade-not-aid
Kenya's booming flower business is proof trade, not aid, will help Africa out of poverty, said HE Joseph Muchemi, Kenya’s High Commissioner.
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Kenyan auditor gains provisional EurepGAP approval
Kenyan auditor Africert has obtained provisional accreditation as a EurepGAP certification company.
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ArticleKenyan growers gear up for EurepGAP
Small-holder growers in Kenya are starting to reap the benefits of a number of USAid-funded Horticulture Development Council projects.
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ArticleKenyan exports reach record levels
Exports of Kenyan flowers have again reached record levels, it was revealed at this year's Kenya Flower Day.
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ArticlePIP sounds for Kenya
Last week’s article on the Pesticides Initiative Programme (PIP) provided an overview of the aims of the COLEACP efforts to enhance agricultural practices in African and Caribbean producer nations. Tommy Leighton went to one of the region’s leading fresh produce exporting countries, Kenya, and reports on the feelings of industry representatives towards the effects of European regulations and demands on the local industry.
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ArticleKenyan horticulture industry gets auditing assistance
Kenya's fresh produce exporters will get government support to access and retain their share of the heavily regulated European Union (EU) markets.
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Kenya takes its Berlin bow
Kenya, in the form of the Vegpro group, attended Fruit Logistica for the first time.
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ArticleKenya benefits from PIP programme
In the first of a regular series of features on African, Caribbean and Pacific producing nations, the Journal's spotlight falls on Kenya. Horticulture is one of the most vibrant sectors of the Kenyan economy, ranking second behind tea as a generator of foreign exchange. Some 40,000 tonnes of fresh fruit and vegetables are exported yearly to the European Union by Kenyan producers and exporters. At the top of the list are green beans ñ one of the most important imported horticultural product to the EU from ACP countries ñ with 22,000t, followed by avocados (12,000t) and mange-tout (4,000t). Kenya is the second biggest producer of green beans in the world and the biggest exporter of mange tout to the EU. The production of fresh veg in Kenya rests mainly in the hands of 4,000 small producers.
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Kenya Flower Day
Kenya Flower Day (June 17) saw Erastus Mureithi, chairman of the Kenya Flower Council (KFC), announce that 2002 had been a successful year for the Kenyan flower industry but it had not come without its upheavals.
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Kenyan industry fears trade talks
Kenyan exporters have appealed to government in the build up to new trade talks.
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Kenyan flower lift
The Kenyan floriculture sector has received a boost with the launch of a new fungicide, Flint 50 WG.