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Unreliable power, labour cost put pressure on firms’ earnings

Workers prepare flowers for export at a Naivasha farm.

NAIVASHA, KENYA: Flower farmers have raised concerns over increasing cost of production and labour reducing profit margins in a sector that employs hundreds of Kenyans.

This has been worsened by unreliable electricity supply which has seen farmers resort to use of diesel power further pushing up the cost of production.

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