Kenya’s miraa exports to Somalia earned a whopping KSh221 million to Mogadishu in four days following the reopening of its border with Somalia.
Head of Miraa, Pyrethrum and other Industrial Crops, Felix Mutwiri says the country has so far exported 81.4 tonnes in the last four days, with an expectation for the volumes to increase in the next coming days as more people are cleared to ship out the commodity.
The first shipment of miraa exports departed Nairobi for Mogadishu on July 24, a week after President Uhuru Kenyatta and Somalia’s President Hassan Mahmoud agreed on the reopening of the border between the two countries to ease the movement of people and enhance trade in goods and services.
Nation reports that a kilogram of khat to Somalia currently goes for KSh2,734, a little lower than the KSh2,972 that it fetched before the market was stopped in early 2020 amid a maritime border dispute between the two countries.
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