What is the price of molluscs per kilogram/pound in Kenya today?
The retail price range for Kenya molluscs is between US$ 0.95 and US$ 0.95 per kilogram or between US$ 0.43 and US$ 0.43 per pound(lb). Click here to see today's exact prices of molluscs in Kenya
The retail price range in Kenyan Shilling for molluscs is between KES 131.50 and KES 131.50 per kilogram or between KES 59.64 and KES 59.64 per pound(lb) in Nairobi and Mombasa.
Wholesale prices
In 2024, the approximate wholesale price range for Kenya molluscs is between US$ 0.66 and US$ 0.66 per kilogram or between US$ 0.30 and US$ 0.30 per pound(lb).
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Kenya Molluscs Export Prices - Historical, Trends and Prediction
The export price per kilogram of Molluscs from Kenya over the last five years has seen a steady increase. In 2016, the export price was 0.71 US $ per kg, and in 2021 it was 1.52 US $ per kg. The highest export price was in 2018, when it reached 1.80 US $ per kg. The lowest export price was in 2013, when it was 0.58 US $ per kg. Based on this trend, it is predicted that the export price of Molluscs from Kenya in 2023 will be around 1.76 US $ per kg, and in 2024 it will be around 1.90 US $ per kg.Kenya Molluscs Import Prices - Historical, Trends and Prediction
The import price per kilogram of Molluscs into Kenya over the last five years has been relatively stable. In 2016, the price was 0.71 US dollars per kg, followed by 0.98 US dollars per kg in 2017. In 2018, the price increased to 1.80 US dollars per kg, before dropping back to 0.98 US dollars per kg in 2019. The price then decreased further to 0.75 US dollars per kg in 2020, before increasing to 1.52 US dollars per kg in 2021. Based on this trend, it is predicted that the import price per kilogram of Molluscs into Kenya in 2023 will be 1.45 US dollars per kg, and in 2024 will be 1.38 US dollars per kg.Export values for Kenya molluscs
The total values in export for molluscs in Kenya were US$ 29, US$ 46, US$ 115 and US$ 50 in US dollar thousand for the years 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019 in that order.
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Kenya molluscs - Production, Exports, Imports, Seasons and HS Codes
In 2019 Kenya shipped 51 tonnes of molluscs. Across 2019 alone, the market for Kenya molluscs (seafood category) has reduced, with a change of -20.312 pc compared to the year 2018. Between 2017 and 2019, molluscs' exports increased by 8.51% bringing the country US$0.05m for the year 2019. Kenya's molluscs exports are classified as:
- Live, fresh, chilled, frozen, dried, salted or in brine, even smoked, aquatic invertebrates (excluding crustaceans, molluscs, sea cucumbers, sea urchins and jellyfish); all flours, meals and pellets of aquatic invertebrates other than crustaceans and molluscs, fit for human consumption (HS code 030890)
- Molluscs, prepared or preserved (excluding smoked, oysters, scallops, mussels, cuttle fish, squid, octopus, abalone, snails, and clams, cockles and arkshells) (HS code 160559)
- Live, fresh or chilled molluscs, fit for human consumption, even in shell (excluding oysters, scallops of the genera Pecten, Chlamys or Placopecten, mussels "Mytilus spp., Perna spp.", cuttle fish "Sepia officinalis, Rossia macrosoma, Sepiola spp.", squid "Ommastrephes spp., Loligo spp., Nototodarus spp., Sepioteuthis spp.", octopus "Octopus spp.", snails other than sea snails, clams, cockles and ark shells and abalone); fresh or chilled flours, meals and pellets of molluscs, fit for human consumption (HS code 030791)
- Molluscs, even in shell, frozen (excl. oysters, scallops of the genera Pecten, Chlamys or Placopecten, mussels "Mytilus spp., Perna spp.", cuttle fish and squid, octopus "Octopus spp.", snails other than sea snails, clams, cockles and ark shells, abalone and stromboid conchs); flours, meals and pellets of molluscs, frozen, fit for human consumption (HS code 030792)
- Molluscs, fit for human consumption, even in shell, smoked, frozen, dried, salted or in brine (excluding oysters, scallops of the genera Pecten, Chlamys or Placopecten, mussels "Mytilus spp., Perna spp.", cuttle fish "Sepia officinalis, Rossia macrosoma, Sepiola spp.", squid "Ommastrephes spp., Loligo spp., Nototodarus spp., Sepioteuthis spp.", octopus "Octopus spp.", snails other than sea snails, clams, cockles and ark shells and abalone); frozen, dried, salted or in brine, flours, meals and pellets of molluscs, fit for human consumption (HS code 030799)
- Aquatic invertebrates, prepared or preserved (excluding smoked, crustaceans, molluscs, sea cucumbers, sea urchins and jellyfish) (HS code 160569)
- Molluscs and aquatic invertebrates, prepared or preserved (HS code 160590)
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Kenya molluscs export values
In 2019, Kenya supplied molluscs costing 0.05m USD, a contraction of -56.52% from 2018's total molluscs export of 0.115m USD. The yearly change in value of Kenya molluscs between 2017 to 2018 was 150 per cent.
The annual/yearly change in the quantity of Kenya's molluscs exports between 2017 and 2019 was 8.51% in comparison to a variation of -20.312% in the period between 2018 and 2019.
Export markets for Kenya molluscs ( in '000$ )
Kenya bought 1 tonnes of molluscs in 2019.