“Pyrethrin is the most important insecticide in the world,” says Joel Maina Kibett, chief agriculture officer of Nakuru ...

The recent outbreak of violence in Kenya is piling further pressure on the global pyrethrum industry and raising fears over long-term viability of the crop. Supplies of pyrethrum from Kenya - the ...

Francis Waweru, now in his 60s, has been a pyrethrum farmer for more than 40 years in Naivasha. He remembers the 1980s when the crop was a source of booming business for the family, to the 1990s and ...

Pyrethrum is a naturally occurring mixture of chemicals found in certain chrysanthemum flowers. It was first recognised to have insecticidal properties around 1800AD in Asia and was used to kill ticks ...

Kenya was once the world’s leading producer of pyrethrum, exporting to markets in the US, Europe, China and South Africa. But the sector collapsed in the 1990s due to mismanagement, delayed payments ...

Kenya plans to regain its position as the world’s biggest exporter of pyrethrum, a flower used to make insecticide, by allowing private producers to grow the crop, the Pyrethrum Regulatory Authority ...

The event, which took place at the company's headquarters, marked the official appointment of Mr. Njoroge Wachira as the Acting Chief Executive Officer, signalling renewed momentum in the efforts to ...

Nairobi — Desperate to restore farmers' confidence, pyrethrum officials have started a campaign to weed out brokers targeting to buy the crop illegally at farm gates. Pyrethrum Board of Kenya (PBK) is ...

* Any views expressed in this article are those of the author and not of Thomson Reuters Foundation. Mismanagement of Kenya's once globally dominant pyrethrum industry has dealt a harsh blow to the ...

The demand for pyrethrum (Chrysanthemum cinerariifolium) resulted in a greatly increased production of this profitable crop in Kenya during the War. It has been cultivated commercially in Kenya since ...

Kenya plans to regain its position as the world’s biggest exporter of pyrethrum, a flower used to make insecticide, by allowing private producers to grow the crop, the Pyrethrum Regulatory Authority ...