{"id":411,"date":"2012-12-05T17:56:01","date_gmt":"2012-12-05T15:56:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/trademission.kenyagreece.com\/en\/?p=411"},"modified":"2014-05-26T16:02:09","modified_gmt":"2014-05-26T16:02:09","slug":"agricultural-products-in-kenya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/trademission.kenyagreece.com\/en2013\/agricultural-products-in-kenya\/","title":{"rendered":"Agricultural products in Kenya"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\">\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/trademission.kenyagreece.com\/en2013\/files\/2012\/12\/women_farmers_kenya.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-413\" title=\"women_farmers_kenya\" src=\"http:\/\/trademission.kenyagreece.com\/en2013\/files\/2012\/12\/women_farmers_kenya.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"320\" srcset=\"http:\/\/trademission.kenyagreece.com\/en2013\/files\/2012\/12\/women_farmers_kenya.jpg 600w, http:\/\/trademission.kenyagreece.com\/en2013\/files\/2012\/12\/women_farmers_kenya-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Agriculture remains the most important economic activity in Kenya, although less than 8% of the land is used for crop and feed production.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The main agricultural products of Kenya are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Tea<\/strong>.\u00a0Black tea\u00a0is Kenya\u2019s leading agricultural foreign exchange earner. Production in 1999 reached 220,000 tons. Tea exports were valued at $404.1 million in 2001, or nearly 18% of total exports.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Coffee<\/strong>. Coffee is Kenya\u2019s third leading foreign exchange earner, after tourism and tea.\u00a0In 2001, coffee earnings totaled $91.8 million. Production in 2001\/02 amounted to 52,140 tons.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Horticulture<\/strong>.\u00a0Kenyan horticulture\u00a0has become prominent in recent years, and is now the third leading agricultural export, following tea and coffee. Fresh produce accounted for about 30% of horticultural exports, and included green beans, onions, cabbages, snow peas, avocados, mangoes, and passion fruit. Flowers exported include roses, carnations, statice, astromeria, and lilies.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For more information visit the website of the <a title=\"Ministry of Agriculture\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kilimo.go.ke\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ministry of Agriculture<\/a>.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Agriculture remains the most important economic activity in Kenya, although less than 8% of the land is used for crop and feed production.<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":413,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[25,10],"tags":[63],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/trademission.kenyagreece.com\/en2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/trademission.kenyagreece.com\/en2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/trademission.kenyagreece.com\/en2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/trademission.kenyagreece.com\/en2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/trademission.kenyagreece.com\/en2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=411"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/trademission.kenyagreece.com\/en2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1268,"href":"http:\/\/trademission.kenyagreece.com\/en2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411\/revisions\/1268"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/trademission.kenyagreece.com\/en2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/trademission.kenyagreece.com\/en2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/trademission.kenyagreece.com\/en2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/trademission.kenyagreece.com\/en2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}