Providing affordable, fortified groundnut products for BoP consumers

About the partnership

Kenya

Soy and Oil Seeds

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Active

This partnership aims to develop affordable, aflatoxin-free fortified groundnut products for BoP consumers in the semi-arid counties of Meru and Tharaka Nithi. Through 2SCALE's support, these products will be developed to meet quality standards that are tested and certified by the Kenya Bureau of Standards (KEBS) and develop the marketing and last-mile distribution system for the new products. In order to get the aflatoxin-free nuts from the farms, the partnership seeks to introduce improved production, harvesting and post-harvest innovations at the farm level and at the Batian Nuts Ltd (BNL) factory.

About the Business champion

Batian Nuts Ltd (BNL) is an agro-processing organization incorporated in 2017 as a private limited liability company.

BNL plans to partner with at least 10,000 SHFs (50% women) in semi-arid counties of Tharaka Nithi and Meru on two fronts: introduce new more yielding and drought-tolerant groundnut varieties, and build the capacities of the smallholder farmers (SHFs) to supply the company with high-quality aflatoxin-free groundnuts. The partnership ambition is to process the groundnuts into assorted products that will be consumed by an estimated 10,000 low-income consumers.

Key interventions

Access to affordable and nutritious products for an estimated 10,000 BoP consumers through development of fortified peanut-based products including high energy paste.

Improve productivity and income for an estimated 10,000 smallholder farmers (50% women, 40% youth) through introduction of improved production and harvest technologies, introduction of farm and non-farm innovation on aflatoxin management.

Facilitate access to finance to the actors in the partnership including SHFs, Batian and other micro-entrepreneurs.

10,000 farmers targeted & supported

120 SMEs involved

40-50 producer organizations involved

€ 1,487,037 private sector co-investment

10,000 BoP consumers with improved access to nutritious food

Get in touch

Curious about this partnership? Get in touch with the Inclusive Agribusiness Advisor.

E-mail Eliud Nkuja

Inclusive Agribusiness Advisor

	Eliud Nkuja
	ENkunja@2scale.org

Project partners

Kilimo Trust

Kilimo Trust (KT) is a not-for-profit organization working on agriculture for development across the East Africa community – in Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda and Burundi. Kilimo Trust is a go to implementing partner for inclusive and sustainable market-led agricultural value chain development in the region. With extensive experience in Value chain development, Kilimo Trust will support the partnership in coordination and training of farmers as well as conducting maker surveys on Groundnuts and various Groundnuts value added products.

Egerton University

Egerton University is the premier Agricultural public University in Kenya. It has however, broadened to other areas of research and teaching such as Natural resources management among other courses that cut across different expertise. With a lot of expertise in quality certified seed multiplication and research, Egerton will support the partnership in enhancing access to quality seeds for the farmers involved in production as well as machinery to support the farmers in de-husking.

County governments of Tharaka Nithi and Meru

Departments of Agriculture which provide Government extension services.

Kenya Agricultural and Livestock Research Organization (KALRO)

KALRO is a corporate body created under the Kenya Agricultural and Livestock Research Act of 2013 to establish suitable legal and institutional framework for coordination of agricultural research in Kenya with the following goals:- promote, streamline, coordinate and regulate research in crops, livestock, genetic resources and biotechnology in Kenya, expedite equitable access to research information, resources and technology and promote the application of research findings and technology in the field of agriculture.

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