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According to reports, East African countries have become Africa's largest avocado exporters. As a major exporter of tropical fruits, South Africa lags behind Kenya for the first time in 2017, with exports of 43,492 tons.
The biting shortage of tampons could last for another one month as suppliers of the female hygiene products grapple with import hitches.
Imports of secondhand clothes, popularly known as mitumba, almost doubled between July and September 2018 after Treasury reduced the duty on the products.
Kenya has reverted to importing sugar from the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (Comesa) and East African Community member countries, bringing in more than 70 per cent of the imported produce from these markets in the nine months to September this year.
According to Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA), the minerals and mining sector in 2017 contributed overall total mining fiscal of GH¢ 2.16 billion, an increase of 31 per cent over GH¢ 1.65 billion in 2016.
According to the report, Kenya plans to launch East Africa's largest solar plant this year. It is expected to commission a 54.6MW solar plant.
It is reported that coffee prices have fallen to the lowest in 12 years. The average price of coffee in the 50 kg bag dropped from Sh20, 229 in October 2017 to Sh16, 237.6 in the previous month.
It is reported that Kenya is the world's third largest flower exporter, accounting for a quarter of the EU market share.
According to the report, there was a highly marketed increase in the amount of macadamia nuts produced in Kenya last year.