April, 26, 2010

Kenya’s horticultural industry is back in business as the skies opened for travel on Wednesday.Hopes are high that the industry will recovery after losing millions from flight cancellations linked to volcanic eruption under the Eyjafjallajokull glacier in Iceland.The flower sector is getting into the May high season associated with Mothers’ Day with exporters upbeat about making good returns.

The flight crisis resulted in shortages of flowers in developed countries and massive losses among growers.At the Netherlands flower auction, prices of roses went up by 50 per cent, a situation attributed to lack of supplies from Kenya.A representative of an Holland auction house in Nairobi said supplies were shrinking by about 20 per cent per day from Monday last week amid escalating demand .In Britain, roses and carnations grown in Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Israel and Kenya were in high demand as supplies from respective countries withered away.

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