A new flower park holds promise for the commercial floriculture business, but logistics remain a major impediment, as a consultant's experiment showed.

Ethiopia's horticulture sector, according to the country's recently released total export revenue, remains a top earning product for the East African country.

Companies and governments are trying to get smallholders to improve yields and adopt new technological solutions, but change requires time and effort.

Government incentives have given horticulture a growth spurt. But every rose has its thorns: now there's greater scrutiny and more red tape.

The Ghana Export Promotion Authority (GEPA) has rolled out a geographical mapping of companies to create a data base for a national product traceability system, as the country hopes to rake in about $3.3 billion from its exports this year.

A recent spell of inclement weather in some of the main horticultural areas proved devastating for Ethiopia's Valentine's Day flower exports.

Last year’s bumper maize crop has cost the government K1.1trn more than expected to keep its buy-back promise

New constitution, new politics
The government is focused on implementing the terms of the new constitution before national elections in 2012 that will pit Prime Minister Odinga against President Kibaki’s chosen candidate.