How Cooking Oil Imports Are Stifling Kenya's Manufacturing Industry 

The problem is Somalis.... They like importing everything

where exactly and around how much does it cost

Because it’s cheaper to grow in Uganda given the exchange rate and cheaper to import palm crude oil from Indonesia which is actually responsible for deforestation in those countries. Kenyan farmers tried to grow soybeans then companies like Bidco moved to grow in Uganda which is cheaper to home grown.

Sure?

So does what Europe consumes becomes the standard of what's best?

@@brian.mwangi I wouldn’t say so but Europe has proved to have better legislation on health more than any region on the planet so it’s not insane to look at their decisions and how they arrive at them.

Very professional discussion based on data!!

And responsible for deforestation in Indonesia etc and the market is controlled by cartels who use it to wash their illegal earnings especially from drugs and human trafficking. So Palm oil ni ya huko kwenu sisi majuu hatuitambui🤷🏽‍♀️🇬🇧🇦🇺

@@xxxyz326 Population growth and agricultural economic development are certainly a source of deforestation. The only way the deforestation levels can reduce in Indonesia due to an increased acreage of land under Palm Oil cultivation, is for more countries to plant the crop. Reducing the pressure of Indonesia to meet world's requirements of Palm oil and to make it less attractive is key. Otherwise that palm oil fetches them dollars directly as opposed to the forests will see more acreage of forests being cut down to give way to Palm Oil. Palm oil in itself isn't bad.

@@georgeooko3716 🤔🤔and cartels can allow this? Poverty and war is profitable for a few. So mass cultivation will reduces profits and power and control. Commercial world know what to do just want to change status quo. For population, from urbanisation view yes may be high, otherwise if you look around each country, continent have massive land unoccupied.