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Kenya's 2015 flower earnings swell 5 percent

Kenya's earnings from flower exports grew by 5 percent last year as the sector showed resurgence following the successful renewal of trade agreement with the European Union in late 2014.

Failure to renew on time the agreement with the trading bloc in 2014 hit the sector amid a weakening global economy.

Kenyan farmers had to grapple with introduction of taxes on their produce following the lapse of the Economic Partnership Agreement.

But things warmed up in 2015, with earnings from cut flowers rising by about 30.1 million U.S. dollars, latest figures from the Horticultural Directorate showed Monday.

Read more at Shanghai Daily