Irish potato farmers in Meru should utilise a 250- tonne cold storage facility whose construction is set for completion in March.
The facility being built at a cost of Sh100 million at Ngusishi in Buuri West is meant to help farmers cut on post-harvest losses as well as earn better prices for their produce.
Irish potato farmers in Meru should utilise a 250- tonne cold storage facility whose construction is set for completion in March.
The facility being built at a cost of Sh100 million at Ngusishi in Buuri West is meant to help farmers cut on post-harvest losses as well as earn better prices for their produce.
Mr. Mwenda Rithaa, the CEO of Micro and Small Enterprises Authority (MSEA) said the facility will help farmers to ward off middlemen who have over the years taken advantage of the highly perishable produce to deny them favourable prices.
He said the cooling facility would hold produce for up to eight months until farmers obtained favourable prices.
“This is part of President Uhuru Kenyatta’s Big four agenda on food security. Once a farmer brings their produce to the cold store, they will be given a voucher upon which they can access loans. Currently, farmers lose more than 30 percent of their potatoes after harvest,” Mr. Rithaa said.
He said farmers would utilise the facility through cooperatives which can also attract other partners to provide inputs, financial well as extension services.
Mr. Rithaa said MSEA intends to facilitate value addition targeting various agricultural produce across the country.
“We also intend to support dairy, poultry, cereals, and horticultural farmers to earn more money from their ventures,” he said.
MSEA Board chairman Charles Waithaka said phase two of the programme will bring in investors who can venture into potato value addition and certified seed multiplication.
“The area around the cold store will be opened up as an industrial zone for various products. This will translate to more money to the farmer and boost food security and economy of the region,” Mr. Waithaka said.
According to the Meru County Integrated Development Plan (CIDP) 2018-2022, the county produced 196,434 tonnes of potatoes valued at more than Sh5 billion.
As a result, Meru farmers lose more than Sh1.8 billion every year due to a lack of cold storage facilities.
Source: businessdailyafrica.com
No matter if some one searches for his necessary thing, therefore he/she wants to be available that in detail, therefore that thing is maintained over here.
hey there and thank you for your info – I’ve certainly picked up anything new from right here.
I did however expertise some technical points using this site, as I experienced to reload the site a lot of times previous to I could get it to load properly.
I had been wondering if your hosting is OK? Not that I am complaining,
but sluggish loading instances times will sometimes affect
your placement in google and could damage your high-quality score if
ads and marketing with Adwords. Anyway I’m adding this RSS
to my email and could look out for a lot more of your respective interesting content.
Make sure you update this again soon.
Hello, this weekend is good in favor of me, because this occasion i am reading this enormous educational post here at my house.
It’s an amazing article designed for all the online users; they will get benefit from it I am
sure.
You’re so interesting! I don’t believe I’ve truly read through something like that
before. So good to discover someone with genuine thoughts on this
topic. Really.. many thanks for starting this up.
This site is one thing that is needed on the internet, someone with a bit
of originality!
Thanks a bunch for sharing this with all people you actually
recognize what you are speaking approximately! Bookmarked.
Kindly also talk over with my web site =). We
may have a link change arrangement between us
Your way of explaining everything in this paragraph is truly good, all be capable of effortlessly be aware
of it, Thanks a lot.
tadalafil 30 mg tadalafil tablets
generic tadalafil 40 mg
medications without a doctor’s prescription buy prescription drugs
generic drugs without doctor’s prescription sildenafil without doctor prescription
I truly love your website.. Pleasant colors & theme.
Did you make this web site yourself? Please reply back as I’m
wanting to create my own personal website and would love to know where you got this from or exactly what the theme is named.
Thank you!
buying viagra online viagra cost
when will viagra be generic
I blog quite often and I seriously thank you for your content.
This great article has really peaked my interest.
I’m going to take a note of your website
and keep checking for new details about once per
week. I subscribed to your RSS feed too.
I think the admin of this web site is genuinely working hard in support of his web page, as here every stuff is quality based stuff.
games ps4 185413490784 games ps4
Hi there everybody, here every person is sharing these kinds of knowledge,
thus it’s pleasant to read this weblog, and I used to visit this weblog daily.
My brother suggested I might like this blog. He was totally right.
This post actually made my day. You cann’t imagine just how much time I had spent for this information! Thanks!
Thank you, I have recently been searching for info
about this topic for a while and yours is the best I have came upon till now.
But, what concerning the bottom line? Are you certain concerning the supply?
Do you have any video of that? I’d like to find out more details.
I think this is among the so much important information for me.
And i’m satisfied studying your article. But should statement on some general things, The site taste is great, the articles
is in reality great : D. Good activity, cheers
Awesome! Its truly awesome post, I have got much clear idea about from this post.
I loved as much as you will receive carried out right here.
The sketch is attractive, your authored material stylish. nonetheless, you command get bought an shakiness over that you wish be delivering the following.
unwell unquestionably come further formerly again as exactly the same nearly a lot often inside case you shield this hike.
asmr 0mniartist