FARMKENYA INITIATIVE
Crop
By Peter Muiruri | December 20th 2020 at 08:00:00 GMT +0300
Work in progress at Avoveg Limited, a company dealing in the processing and export of horticultural produce. [David Njaaga, Standard]
The National Horticultural Policy shows how agro-processing and packaging technologies are relatively undeveloped.
As Kenya ramps up avocado production, adoption of modern technology can boost production of the crop that is fast becoming a key foreign exchange earner.
The National Horticultural Policy cites poor uptake of modern methods of farming as one of the key challenges that hampers horticultural farmers from realising full potential.
For example, the policy shows how agro-processing and packaging technologies are relatively undeveloped in Kenya.