Kenya: Banned Pesticide Could Impact Farming Revenue

Author:
ntvkenya
Publisher:
NTVKenya
Publication Date:
30 January 2012
Tags:
Kenya, Agribusiness, Health and Medicine, International Organizations and Africa

Horticulture is Kenya's biggest foreign exchange earner, and if the directive from the EU to ban the pesticide

Dimethoate is not complied with, the country could lose over 20 billion shillings of export to the EU.

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