Nairobi — The liberalisation of Kenya's lucrative pyrethrum industry appears to be in the offing following the government's decision to pay off farmers' arrears. The Minister of Agriculture gave out ...

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 ...

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 ...

Tanzania is offering stiff competition to Kenya's pyrethrum in the international market, the Pyrethrum Growers Association said yesterday. The association's officials, who are on a countrywide tour to ...

The price of pyrethrum extract, the main product obtained from the processing of pyrethrum flowers, jumped by 38.8 percent last year to hit the highest level on available record, due to a weak ...

Production of a valuable flower crop is blooming again in Kenya after years of wilting sales. Chrysanthemums, aside from being attractive, are prized as a source of organic pesticides, called ...

• Agriculture CS Peter Munya said the Ministry is targeting an additional 1,500 acres under pyrethrum in Nakuru by April 2021. • Kenya, which was producing about 80 per cent of pyrethrum globally has ...

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 ...