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Fresh produce exporters suffer multiple hits from power outage
Fresh Produce Consortium of Kenya chief executive officer Okisegere Ojepat (right) and Produce Exporters Association of Kenya chief executive officer Hosea Machuki during press briefing on November 11, 2020. Fresh produce exporters are counting losses in hundreds of millions of shillings occasioned by the Friday night power outage.
Exporters of fresh produce are reckoning with losses estimated in the hundreds of millions of shillings as a result of the erratic power supply caused by the blackout that hit the country on Friday night.
The Fresh Produce Consortium of Kenya now says its members, who are a major source of Kenya's foreign exchange earnings, are unable to plan shipments out of the country because of the disruption caused by the blackout.
