Why a county in Kenya is investing big in avocados
"The most important crop to me now is the Hass avocado. The fruit has a limitless market in Europe. We just can’t satisfy that market. Before we regularised the market, farmers used to sell a fruit for as low as Sh1."
"Now they sell one for Sh8. We negotiated with four buyers and set the minimum price. Last year farmers in Murang’a earned Sh500 million from avocados."
"It is bigger than coffee. One properly watered tree of Hass avocado can give you 1,000 fruits a year, which comes to Sh8,000."
source: nation.co.ke
