The recent outbreak of violence in Kenya is piling further pressure on the global pyrethrum industry and raising fears over long-term viability of the crop. Supplies of pyrethrum from Kenya - the ...
Francis Waweru, now in his 60s, has been a pyrethrum farmer for more than 40 years in Naivasha. He remembers the 1980s when the crop was a source of booming business for the family, to the 1990s and ...
Kenya plans to regain its position as the world’s biggest exporter of pyrethrum, a flower used to make insecticide, by allowing private producers to grow the crop, the Pyrethrum Regulatory Authority ...
Nairobi — Steven Mkawale tells how the country's pyrethrum sector is threatened with a crisis, with regulator owing farmers more than Sh800 million in arrears since December 2002. Stanley Korir ...
Kenya has licensed Orion Export Processing Zone Ltd to undertake a value addition venture on pyrethrum. Orion will install equipment worth $2.5 million at the Athi River Export Processing Authority ...
* Any views expressed in this article are those of the author and not of Thomson Reuters Foundation. Mismanagement of Kenya's once globally dominant pyrethrum industry has dealt a harsh blow to the ...
Kenya plans to regain its position as the world’s biggest exporter of pyrethrum, a flower used to make insecticide, by allowing private producers to grow the crop, the Pyrethrum Regulatory Authority ...