False Codling Moth threatens Kenya's flower exports to EU

L-R; Isaac Macharia, Principal Inspector, plant pathologist at Kenya Plant Health Inspectorate Service (KEPHIS), Dick Van Raamsdonk, General Director, HPP Exhibitions, Clement Tulezi, CEO, Kenya Flower Council and Christine Chesaro, Director, Horticultural Crop Directorate during the media briefing on the status of the Kenyan flower industry. [Standard]

The false codling Moth (FCM) which is locally known by Kenyan rose flower growers and citrus crop planters as orange moth is still a threat to Kenyan exports in the European markets, the standard has learnt.

When the world marked the International Day of Plant Health this week, with key stakeholders in Kenya's floriculture industry celebrating the progress made so far and finding ways of confronting emerging plant health challenges affecting the country's leading export-roses-the quarantine pest scientifically known as Thaumatotibia Leucatreta was at the centre of discussion on how to eradicate it.