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Horticulture players lock horns over immature avocados claims

Avocados on sale at a market in Gatitu, Nyeri County, on March 22, 2023. [Kibata Kihu, Standard]

Kenya has on several occasions had to battle the bad image occasioned by exported avocados that have gone bad while on the shelves and are anything but palatable by the time they reach consumers.

This has been attributed to the harvest and export of immature fruits, something that a segment of the industry said is getting worse by the day and threatening to erode the gains that the local avocado fruit has made over the years.

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