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Maina Kio of Mitchell Cotts, Praveen Singh of Black Tulip, Hilda Kwamboka Miranyi of Kenya Plant Health Inspectorate Service
(KEPHIS), Roland Weil of Frankfurt Airport, Racheal Ndegwa of Swissport Kenya and Libin Chacko Kurian of Logistics Update Africa

Jeroen van der Hulst of FlowerWatch, Patricia Odida of Astral Aviation, Sam Quintelier of Brussels Airport,
Moses Ndegwa of AAA Growers and Rajarshi Chatterjee of Logistics Update Africa Jeroen van der Hulst, Owner and Founder, FlowerWatch

Patrice Ngenga, Technical Standards “Those are the two exit points He also noted there are other
and Compliance Officer, Fresh Produce that have the capacity to handle fresh potential exit points in the country
Exporters Association of Kenya produce. If you're growing fresh produce that don't have the capacity and
(FPEAK), noted that Kenya is better than in the Rift region or western region, infrastructure to handle the
its neighbours but there is a long way you have to either come to Nairobi or, requirements posted by horticultural
to go. He pointed out that Kenyan fresh if you're dealing with fruits which go businesses.
produce has only two exit points: Jomo by sea, you have to drive all the way to “Facilities like the Eldoret International
Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA) Mombasa. That's a long time that you Airport and Kisumu International Airport
and the Port of Mombasa. spend on the road,” he said. don't have the necessary facilities. Even

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