Boost for Kenyan traders as miraa exports to Somalia more than double

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A man harvests miraa at Kiguchwa market, Tigania East, Meru County. FILE PHOTO | NMG

Somalia has allowed Kenya to more than double the volumes of miraa exported to this lucrative market, expanding opportunities for local farmers who are eying good returns from the Horn of Africa nation.

The exports, which have now increased to 50 tonnes daily, had been capped at a maximum of 19 tonnes a day by Mogadishu when the trade between the two countries resumed last year in July after the shipment of the stimulant had been banned by Somalia authorities in 2020.

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