The recent outbreak of violence in Kenya is piling further pressure on the global pyrethrum industry and raising fears over long-term viability of the crop. Supplies of pyrethrum from Kenya - the ...

Nairobi — Desperate to restore farmers' confidence, pyrethrum officials have started a campaign to weed out brokers targeting to buy the crop illegally at farm gates. Pyrethrum Board of Kenya (PBK) is ...

Francis Waweru, now in his 60s, has been a pyrethrum farmer for more than 40 years in Naivasha. He remembers the 1980s when the crop was a source of booming business for the family, to the 1990s and ...

Kenya plans to regain its position as the world’s biggest exporter of pyrethrum, a flower used to make insecticide, by allowing private producers to grow the crop, the Pyrethrum Regulatory Authority ...

Kenya has licensed Orion Export Processing Zone Ltd to undertake a value addition venture on pyrethrum. Orion will install equipment worth $2.5 million at the Athi River Export Processing Authority ...

Kyle Schutter's LinkedIn post about Kentegra Biotechnology's "$50 million success story" in pyrethrum processing caught my attention last week. Schutter, who runs Kenyan investment platform Kuzana, ...

• Agriculture CS Peter Munya said the Ministry is targeting an additional 1,500 acres under pyrethrum in Nakuru by April 2021. • Kenya, which was producing about 80 per cent of pyrethrum globally has ...

* Any views expressed in this article are those of the author and not of Thomson Reuters Foundation. Mismanagement of Kenya's once globally dominant pyrethrum industry has dealt a harsh blow to the ...

The demand for pyrethrum (Chrysanthemum cinerariifolium) resulted in a greatly increased production of this profitable crop in Kenya during the War. It has been cultivated commercially in Kenya since ...

Kenya plans to regain its position as the world’s biggest exporter of pyrethrum, a flower used to make insecticide, by allowing private producers to grow the crop, the Pyrethrum Regulatory Authority ...