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First Avocados, Now Coffee Beans… Kenya’s Expanding Agricultural Exports to China

by Eric Olander
Chinese customs inspectors at the Changsha airport in Hunan province examine raw coffee beans imported from Kenya.

A first batch of 2.04 tons of raw Kenyan coffee beans arrived in the southern Chinese city of Changsha this week, marking the opening of yet another new market for Kenyan agricultural exports in China.

The shipment arrived on Friday on Ethiopian Airlines cargo flight operating as a new air bridge between Addis Ababa and Changsha, the capital of Hunan province.

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