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Kenya, Rift Valley, Lake Naivasha. Karuturi rose farm, the biggest rose farm in the world. Earth worms are used to produce a biological fertilizer...|| But this is just a drop in the ocean compared with the demand.The farm is owned by Sai Rama Krishna Karuturi, 43 (2011), a mechanical engineer from Bangalore, India, the king of roses. He also owns .Lands in Ethiopia, computer companies in India, a canning fac-tory. Four years ago he bought this rose farm on Lake Naivasha in Kenya. it is the largest in the world producing 650 million roses a year. Karuturi supplies mainly to Europe. In Germany, Aldi and Edeka two discounter chains are among its largest customers. (KEYSTONE/LAIF/Hans-Juergen Burkard)