Yes, our lime fruits help make perfumes for Dubai

Farmer Ali Noor at his farm. Other than lime fruits, Mandera also produces succulent watermelons popular in big hotels. [Joe Ombuor, Standard]

That favourite perfume could be having its primary ingredient drawn from a most unlikely source, County number 9, Mandera.

Here, on the banks of River Dawa that forms the natural frontier between Kenya and Ethiopia are lime fruit plantations that thrive in the heat atmosphere, watered by irrigation. The bulk of the citrus crop is dried to preserve it and exported to Dubai in the United Arab Emirates where it is used to manufacture a variety of popular perfumes and deodorants.