Kenya’s earnings from horticulture exports rose 20 percent to 77.81 billion shillings ($766 million) in the first nine months of this year from a year earlier, the country’s statistics office said on Monday.
The data from the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics showed flower exports contributed 53.88 billion shillings ($521 million), or 69 percent of the earnings, with the rest coming from the export of fruits and vegetables.
Horticulture is a key foreign exchange earner alongside tea, remittances from Kenyans living abroad and tourism.
Exports of flowers, fruits and vegetables earned Kenya a total of 90.44 billion shillings in the whole of last year.
Soruce: Standaard Digital News
