Kenya horticulture export earnings up 12pc in 2016

A worker at a flower farm in Naivasha. PHOTO | FILE |

Kenya's earnings from horticulture exports jumped 12 per cent to Sh101.51 billion ($988.41 million) in 2016 compared with a year earlier, the statistics office said on Thursday.

The data from the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics showed flower exports contributed Sh70.83 billion, or 70 per cent of the earnings, with the rest coming from the export of fruits and vegetables.

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