Kenya flower industry hit by flight cancellations (BBC)

[eppur_se_muova]

Kenya's flower industry has been badly hit by the cancellation of flights across Europe because of the ash cloud caused by a volcano in Iceland.

The head of the Kenya Flower Council told the BBC it was costing growers between $1.5m and $2m a day.

She said about 500 tonnes of flowers were currently being kept in cool storage at Nairobi's airport.

Flowers are the East African country's biggest export earner, accounting for about 20% of all exports.
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About 300 growers employ an estimated 100,000 people, with about 1.2m people deriving their livelihood from the flower export industry.
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more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8626215.stm





Another case of disaster falling hardest on those who can least afford it. :(

[FirstLight]

1. another EXAMPLE of the connection between continents.

This happened in ICELAND, and is affecting people from norway to asia to africa...wow
AND affecting all types of industries of you think about it... airtravel, hotels, fuel, parcels, imports/exports...holy cow!

and what is even more interesting is thatr this is a small eruption by volcano standards, and it couls affect the planet for years to come in crops, weather and REAL economic issues...

wow, just wow

[applegrove]

2. Oh the volcano is going to hurt so many people. What a tragedy.