date:Feb 13, 2020
Various traders have reported a strong demand market for haricot verts. Extreme rainfall has been causing quality problems in the Kenyan growing areas for a long time, which means that much less haricot verts are exported than usual.
Kenya is an important production country but the persistent rains cause disease pressure and lower volumes. As far as we know, the invasion of locusts that caused so much damage to crops in the horn of Africa, has not yet caused problems in the cultivation of haric