Fitar nama daga Kenya zuwa kasuwannin Middle East ta ragu sosai yayin watan Ramadan, inda adadin ya sauka zuwa ƙasa da kashi 5% na abin da ake tsammani. Jami’an masana’antar sun ce rikicin da ke faruwa a yankin ya kawo cikas ga zirga-zirgar jiragen sama tare da ƙara tsadar jigilar kaya, abin da ya sa kamfanoni da dama suka kasa ci gaba da fitar da nama kamar yadda aka saba.
A cewar Nicholas Ngahu, yankin Gabas ta Tsakiya shi ne babbar kasuwar naman Kenya, inda United Arab Emirates ke karɓar tsakanin kashi 40% zuwa 60% na kayayyakin da ake fitarwa. A al’ada, Kenya na fitar da nama da kayayyakin dabbobi da darajarsu ta kai kusan dala miliyan 2.3 a kowane mako, amma yanzu ana aika ƙananan kayayyaki ne kawai zuwa birane kamar Abu Dhabi da Dubai, yayin da kasuwanni irin su Oman, Kuwait, Bahrain da Jordan suka fuskanci cikas mai tsanani.
Masu fitar da kaya sun ce masana’antar na aiki ne ƙasa da kashi 15% na ƙarfinta na yau da kullum, yayin da jigilar nama a Ramadan ta ragu zuwa ƙasa da kashi 5% na abin da aka saba tsammani. A cewar Dennis Muraya, raguwar jiragen sama da tsadar jigilar kaya—wanda ya tashi daga kusan dala 1 zuwa dala 3.5 a kowanne kilo—ya sa kamfanoni ke amfani da jiragen haya masu tsada.
Sakamakon haka, adadin naman da ake fitarwa kullum ya ragu daga kusan ton 200 zuwa tsakanin ton 5 zuwa 15 kacal. Wannan matsala ta kuma shafi sauran sassan masana’antar, inda wasu wuraren yanka dabbobi suka rage ma’aikatan wucin gadi da kusan kashi 80%, yayin da wasu kamfanoni ke sayar da nama a cikin gida a farashi mai rahusa domin rage asara.
