Smallholder Farmers And Producers Contribution To The Cut Flower Industry In Kenya

The cut flower industry contributes more than 50% of foreign exchange earnings from total horticultural exports.

The floriculture industry has approximately 5000 producers ranging from smallholder farmers (less than 0.4-1.6 ha) to medium scale operations (4-10 ha) and large commercial operations (20- more than 100).

Fifty medium- to large-scale operations produced 75% of total exports and another 10-15% of exports were produced by several
dozen small- to medium-scale operations. The remaining 5-13% of exports was produced by 3,000 – 4,000 smallholder farmers

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