Hope for quick recovery of Kenya’s flower industry diminish as government arbitrarily increases agricultural produces cess on all horticulture exports from 1st January 2021
On Friday, France began its second lockdown in just seven months in a nationwide effort to curb the country’s renewed surge in Covid-19 cases. The lockdown is expected to last until at least December 1, and comes on the heels of a recent rise in French Covid-19 cases,
The country’s horticulture industry - its third-largest foreign exchange earner, garnering around $1.15 billion annually - is suffering from lockdowns caused by the coronavirus in its main markets in Europe. Sales of cut flowers in overseas markets has been below 35 per cent in the past month.
Civil Society Organisations under Hivos East Africa’s Women@Work Campaign and the Kenya Flower Council (KFC) today dispatched food packages and mobile money transfers worth approximately Ksh8million to workers in selected flower farms.
