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International market for local butterfly farmers beckons

A butterfly farm in Kilifi, Coast. [Standard]

Butterfly farmers in Arabuko Sokoke Forest may soon strike it rich after international butterfly exhibitors expressed interest in buying their insects.

The exhibitors, together with scientists, were recently in Malindi, for a week-long scientific conference, to learn more about the African butterfly bred at Arabuko Sokoke. 

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