For some industries, Christmas or New Year’s celebrations are the busiest times of year. But for Kenya’s flower growers, the biggest holiday is Valentine’s Day. Workers in the city of Navaisha, the center of Kenya’s flower industry, are busy cutting, packing, and cooling roses. Flower workers are celebrating something else, too: a plan for direct flights from Nairobi to New York City beginning next October. The move would create a possibility for the Kenyan flower industry to sell more in the American market. Right now, South American exporters dominate the U.S. market.
Title: Kenya's Flower Industry Grows
Content: <div id='article-page'><div id='article-content' data-media-url='//news-app-staging.s3.amazonaws.com' data-base-url='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/2363/kenya_flowers.m4a' data-capture-url='//staging.analytics.lingraphica.com/events/capture_news' data-article-title='Kenya's Flower Industry Grows' data-article-id='2879'><script src='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com/javascripts/getscripts.js'></script><link rel='stylesheet' href='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com/stylesheets/article.css' type='text/css' /><div class='article'><p><span data-start-time='0' data-end-time='7542'>For some industries, Christmas or New Year’s celebrations are the busiest times of year.</span> <span data-start-time='7542' data-end-time='14521'>But for Kenya’s flower growers, the biggest holiday is Valentine’s Day.</span> <span data-start-time='14521' data-end-time='25854'>Workers in the city of Navaisha, the center of Kenya’s flower industry, are busy cutting, packing, and cooling roses.</span> <span data-start-time='25854' data-end-time='29854'>Flower workers are celebrating something else, too:</span> <span data-start-time='29854' data-end-time='37125'>a plan for direct flights from Nairobi to New York City beginning next October.</span> <span data-start-time='37125' data-end-time='45979'>The move would create a possibility for the Kenyan flower industry to sell more in the American market.</span> <span data-start-time='45979' data-end-time='52625'>Right now, South American exporters dominate the U.S. market.</span> </p></div><div class='control-buttons-sticky' style='display:none;'><div class='control-buttons'><button title='Back' class='back' disabled='disabled'></button><button title='Play' class='play' disabled='disabled'></button><button title='Pause' class='pause' style='display:none;'></button><button title='Forward' class='forward' disabled='disabled'></button><button class='finished-reading' 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