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TRODUCES PROFESSIONAL ETIES………. EN TASTE IS BACK WITH MORE URES Glossy attractive head type cook glossy looking heads of an average head agen taste and the lost slogan of Bachelors’ variety. ure in only 55 days in hot areas and 60 days in cold rofiting plant population of 50,000 plants/ Ha or a or 60T/Acre. The conventional varieties give 00 plants /Acre at a spacing of 60cm x 60cm. 60 Hawkers (at open & enclosed air markets) Sales volume (MT) by commodity  Type  Jun‐11  Jul‐11  Aug‐11  Sep‐11  Oct‐11  Nov‐11  Total  Cooking Banana  9,841  6,645  5,287  4,624  5,795  5,605  37,797  Mangoes  13,120  10,242  5,802  2,687  3,814  5,098  40,763  Passion Fruit  752  308  600  597  700  948  3,905  Ripe Bananas  18,752  17,161  14,034  12,240  14,792  13,687  90,665  Cabbages  12,761  12,315  11,605  11,412  12,429  12,073  72,596  Sukuma Wiki(Kales)  10,846  10,544  10,654  10,340  11,166  10,875  64,424  Tomatoes  25,773  22,843  20,102  19,069  21,215  20,576  129,579  Potatoes  24,416  21,029  19,031  17,383  19,011  17,398  118,268  Sweet Potatoes  2,898  1,619  1,192  1,036  1,233  1,024  9,003  Green Maize  1,029  853  1,427  1,192  1,393  835  6,729  Total Products    120,187  103,558  89,735  80,580  91,550  88,119  573,729  Small duka Sales volume (MT) by commodity  Type  Jun‐11  Jul‐11  Aug‐11  Sep‐11  Oct‐11  Nov‐11  Total  Cooking Bananas  4,252  4,184  3,606  3,494  3,932  3,790  23,257  Mangoes  2,021  1,688  1,075  402  431  1,058  6,675  Passion Fruit  113  131  206  137  140  119  848  Ripe Bananas  9,111  8,219  7,737  7,021  8,063  8,113  48,264  Cabbages  9,362  9,805  9,545  9,611  10,405  10,086  58,814  Sukuma Wiki(Kales)  6,178  6,933  6,920  6,555  7,516  7,432  41,534  Tomatoes  14,911  16,616  14,753  15,115  16,686  14,838  92,919  Potatoes  15,562  19,536  19,230  18,912  21,762  19,991  114,994  Sweet Potato  556  206  245  25  115  404  1,551  Green Maize  2  307  398  220  231  335  1,493  Total Products     62,067  67,624  63,715  61,493  69,283  66,166  390,349  Green grocer Sales volume (MT) by commodity  Type  Jun‐11  Jul‐11  Aug‐11  Sep‐11  Oct‐11  Nov‐11  Total  Cooking Bananas  6,832  4,728  5,606  5,449  6,130  6,266  35,011  Mangoes  4,376  3,545  2,876  698  1,025  1,213  13,733  Passion Fruits  441  108  100  115  93  138  995  Ripe Bananas  8,483  6,975  7,424  7,104  7,698  6,974  44,658  Cabbages  6,069  5,249  4,872  6,146  7,448  6,908  36,691  Sukuma Wiki(Kales)  4,691  4,282  3,587  4,349  4,542  4,389  25,840  Tomatoes  12,730  11,536  9,382  10,180  11,710  11,417  66,955  Potatoes  12,766  14,550  17,820  13,643  16,822  14,707  90,308  Sweet Potato  71  54  0  0  0  66  190  Green Maize  32  101  207  134  290  277  1,040  Total Products  56,492  51,125  51,875  47,817  55,759  52,354  315,422  H O R T I C U LT U R A L N E W S I j a n u a r y - F E B r u a r y 2 0 1 2
  Self‐service Sales volume (MT) by commodity  Type  Jun‐11  Jul‐11  Aug‐11  Sep‐11  Oct‐11  Nov‐11  KENYA HIGHLAND SEED INTRODUCES PRO Total  CABBAGE VARIETIES………. Cooking Bananas  16  17  180  105  157  228  703  Mangoes  21  22  104  98  84  148  477  CABBAGE BLUE JAYS F1 Passion Fruit  7  5  29  21  25  64  151  Ripe Bananas  48  51  146  123  216  307  892  Cabbages  18  22  153  81  93  297  665  Sukuma Wiki(Kales)  19  20  427  256  396  478  1,596  Tomatoes  90  65  472  320  487  485  1,919  Potatoes  76  80  302  151  214  213  1,036  Sweet Potato  6  6  178  111  173  167  641  Green Maize  0  0  4  8  10  8  31  Total Products    300  288  1,995  1,274  1,855  2,397  8,110  Average Pricing (Ksh/Kg)  Type  Jun‐11  Jul‐11  Aug‐11  Sep‐11  Oct‐11  Nov‐11  Selling  Price  Selling  Price  Selling  Price  Purchase  Price  Selling  Price  Purchase  Price  Selling  Price  Purchase  Price  Cooking Bananas  49.5  45.9  50.2  39.8  49.9  37.9  48.6  38.8  48.8  Mangoes  61.8  56.3  69.2  103.3  114.9  80.6  104.9  57.5  70.2  Passion Purple  55.3  59.1  95.2  109.5  133.9  92.2  122.4  98.3  121.2  Passion Yellow  67.7  64.2  79.5  82.4  97.9  76.5  90.8  90.7  114.0  Ripe Bananas  47.7  45.3  51.0  40.8  51.0  37.4  48.7  40.7  51.9  Cabbages  45.5  36.4  28.8  23.8  32.1  24.5  33.3  23.5  32.6  Sukuma Wiki(Kales)  52.4  54.9  30.2  22.8  31.1  23.9  32.8  23.1  31.5  Tomatoes  40.4  33.9  76.0  56.9  68.0  54.6  67.2  54.8  67.6  Red Irish Potatoes  49.7  44.2  29.1  30.2  39.0  30.6  38.3  31.6  40.1  White Irish Potatoes  47.3  46.8  31.7  27.2  35.3  29.4  37.7  30.6  38.4  Orange Fresh Sweet Potatoes  93.0  54.4  74.2  54.4  71.3  58.1  73.1  52.5  59.4  White Fresh Sweet Potatoes  26.2  25.8  71.3  47.4  60.2  47.5  68.9  58.8  67.1  Local Variety Sweet Potatoes  42.7  66.2  69.8  50.4  76.4  28.6  41.6  49.4  70.3  Green Maize  32.8  41.5  39.4  33.0  44.2  36.5  48.1  39.9  51.6    On  price  per  kilogram,  apart  from  Sukuma  Wiki  that  show  eased  average  price  nationally,  all  other  vegetables recorded increased price with. Irish potato recording the highest price increase retailing at an  average of Ksh 68/kg nationally. At regional level’s tomatoes were very expensive in Western going for  Ksh 109/kg compared to Ksh 48/Kg in Central.  Also cabbages and Sweet potatoes were highly priced in  western  region  compared  to  all  other  regions.  This  could  have  been  propelled  by  supply  demand  dynamics.  AS THE LENGENDRY COPENHAGEN TASTE IS B FEATURES Uniform early maturing variety Glossy attractive head type � Very early maturing cabbage with the easy to cook glossy looking hea weight of 3kg. � The variety brings back the legendry Copenhagen taste and the lost sl � Adapted to both hot and cold regions, it mature in only 55 days in hot regions. � At a spacing of 45cm x 45cm, it gives a high profiting plant population 20,000 plants /Acre, with potential of 150T/Ha or 60T/Acre. The conv plant population of 28,000 plants/Ha or 11,000 plants /Acre at a spac � Excellent transport quality � Sweet taste � Easy to grow � High market demand � Vigorous and uniformly growing variety Resistances: Selling  Price  H O R T I C U LT U R A L N E W S I j a n u a r y - F E B r u a r y 2 0 1 2 61
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