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Uzalendo award for flowers encouraging

The horticulture export industry especially the cut-flowers sub-sector is arguably one of the biggest losers of the Covid-19 outbreak. 

While ornamentals are part of agriculture that was marked by President Uhuru Kenyatta as an essential service and spared movement restrictions as Kenya took measures to contain the spread of the virus, flowers are mainly an export crop with little local consumption. 

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