{"id":32612,"date":"2019-03-21T17:45:18","date_gmt":"2019-03-21T15:45:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-kenyas-floral-industry-blooming-into-asia\/"},"modified":"2019-03-21T17:45:18","modified_gmt":"2019-03-21T15:45:18","slug":"kenya-kenyas-floral-industry-blooming-into-asia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-kenyas-floral-industry-blooming-into-asia\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Kenya&#39;s floral industry blooming into Asia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kenya&#8217;s flower industry has been blooming since the 1980&#8217;s, with the country now the third largest exporter of cut flowers worldwide. Flowers from Kenya account for almost 40% of Europe&#8217;s  market. But the industry has been hit by low demand and falling prices due to the economic crisis in Europe, industry players are now exploring new markets which include china and other Asian countries.<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=IqwijVt7udo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">source<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 East Africa <a title=\"Kenya\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/east-africa\/kenya\/\">Kenya<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kenya&#8217;s flower industry has been blooming since the 1980&#8217;s, with the country now the third largest exporter of cut flowers worldwide. Flowers from Kenya account for almost 40% of Europe&#8217;s market. But the industry has been hit by low demand and falling prices due to the economic crisis in Europe, industry players are now exploring [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[258,256,1633,260,27309,14805,434,27308,27307,8317,4688,430,27172,4524,257,254],"class_list":["post-32612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-agriculture","tag-asia","tag-blooming","tag-cgtn-africa","tag-china","tag-floral","tag-flower-industry","tag-industry","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-kenya39s","tag-kenyan","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","post_format-post-format-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32612\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}