{"id":8195,"date":"2020-02-20T08:10:22","date_gmt":"2020-02-20T05:10:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=8195"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:52","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:52","slug":"avocados-in-kenya-whats-holding-back-smallholder-farmers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2020\/02\/20\/avocados-in-kenya-whats-holding-back-smallholder-farmers\/","title":{"rendered":"Avocados in Kenya: What\u2019s Holding Back Smallholder Farmers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>By Mulubrhan Amare<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kenya is the world\u2019s&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nation.co.ke\/business\/Kenya-named-Africas-top-avocado-exporter\/996-5287812-bkivliz\/index.html\">third largest<\/a>&nbsp;producer of avocados. It\u2019s also Kenya\u2019s leading fruit export, accounting for nearly&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-kenya-agriculture-climatechange\/kenyas-ground-down-coffee-farmers-switch-to-avocado-amid-global-boom-idUSKBN1JW1AV\">one-fifth<\/a>&nbsp;of its total horticultural exports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But Kenya only exports&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fao.org\/faostat\/en\/#search\/Avocados\">10%<\/a>&nbsp;of its total avocado production. By&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fao.org\/faostat\/en\/#search\/Avocados\">comparison<\/a>, Chile exports 55% and South Africa exports 60%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Avocado is grown in several parts of Kenya and&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.intracen.org\/itc\/projects\/ntf-3\/KENYA-AVOCADO\/\">about 70%<\/a>&nbsp;of avocado production is by small-scale growers. They grow it for subsistence, local markets, and export purposes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The avocado export market in Kenya is dominated by five major exporters: Kakuzi, Vegpro, Sunripe, Kenya Horticultural Exporters, and East African Growers. These companies source their avocados primarily from smallholder farmers, although some firms also source from larger growers or own plantations.<a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/avocados-in-kenya-whats-holding-back-smallholder-farmers-131396\"> Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Mulubrhan Amare Kenya is the world\u2019s&nbsp;third largest&nbsp;producer of avocados. It\u2019s also Kenya\u2019s leading fruit export, accounting for nearly&nbsp;one-fifth&nbsp;of its total horticultural exports. But Kenya only exports&nbsp;10%&nbsp;of its total avocado&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":8196,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8195\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}