Kenya commences shipment of fresh avocados to Chinese market

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Kenya commences shipment of fresh avocados to Chinese market

STORY: Kenya commences shipment of fresh avocados to Chinese market DATELINE: Aug. 3, 2022 LENGTH: 00:02:16 LOCATION: Nairobi CATEGORY: ECONOMY SHOTLIST: 1. STANDUP 1 (English): RUTH WANGARA, Xinhua reporter in Kenya 2. various of the fresh avocado export ceremony 3. SOUNDBITE 1 (English): BENJAMIN TITO, Director, Horticulture Crops Directorate 4. various of avocados packed in containers 5. SOUNDBITE 2 (English): RICHARD TUWEI, Avocado farmer 6. various of cleaning and packing avocados 7. SOUNDBITE 3 (English): ZHANG YIJUN, Minister Counsellor at the Chinese Embassy in Kenya STORYLINE: STANDUP 1 (English): RUTH WANGARA, Xinhua reporter in Kenya "Kenya is now the first country in Africa to export fresh avocado fruit to China. What you are seeing here on my side is 22 tonnes of fresh avocado, waiting to be transported all the way to Shanghai. This consignment, I am told, will take exactly 21 days." The first batch of fresh avocados grown in Kenya and destined for the Chinese market was flagged off Tuesday a

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