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Year-round, affordable, nutritious dried African Indigenous Vegetables

Industry
  • Animal Production Related
  • Fresh Produce
  • Soy and Oil Seeds
  • Staple Crops
Country
  • Burkina Faso
  • Côte d'Ivoire
  • Egypt
  • Ethiopia
  • Ghana
  • Kenya
  • Mali
  • Niger
  • Nigeria
  • South Sudan
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Industry
  • Animal Production Related
  • Fresh Produce
  • Soy and Oil Seeds
  • Staple Crops


Country
  • Burkina Faso
  • Côte d'Ivoire
  • Egypt
  • Ethiopia
  • Ghana
  • Kenya
  • Mali
  • Niger
  • Nigeria
  • South Sudan

About the partnership

Kenya
Fresh Produce
Status:
Active

This partnership aims to reduce post-harvest losses of African Indigenous Vegetables (i.e., Amaranth, Nightshade, pumpkin leaves, and spinach), during the high production season, by drying them and marketing off the main production season. Drying extends the shelf-life of the vegetables from 7 days to 12 months. Through the partnership Sweet ‘n’ Driedn(SnD ) will develop and market dried vegetable products for Base of Pyramid consumers and integrate smallholder farmers in its African Indigenous Vegetables supply chain. In addition, the year-round processing of the vegetables will ensure permanent jobs unlike the current situation where jobs are seasonal, disrupting the incomes of the rural women employed at the factory. The reduction of post-harvest losses will also guarantee improved incomes to smallholder farmers. 

About the business champion

Sweet & Dried is a young-female led agro-processing enterprise that specializes in processing of fruits, vegetables, and grains into dried products and assorted flours. Based in Tharaka-Nithi county, it works with over 1,200 smallholder farmers (60% women) in the upper and lower eastern parts of Kenya. Current products include dried mangoes, dried ripe bananas, composite porridge flour (pearl millet, sorghum, ripe banana, and carrot), dried amaranth seeds, pumpkin flour, and an assortment of dried African Indigenous Vegetables. It has also carried out trials on dried kales/spinach/cabbage mix and dried amaranth leaves which are planned for commercialization following certification by the Kenya Bureau of Standards (KEBS).

Key interventions
Serving BoP consumers with affordable and quality dried African Indigenous Vegetables.
Supporting smallholder farmers to adopt climate smart agriculture practices on their farms to increase their production & income.
Facilitate access to working capital for Sweet n Dried Ltd and financial services to the small holder farmers.
5,000 farmers targeted & supported.
50 micro-small and medium enterprises involved
60 producer organizations involved.
€ 649,000 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 partnership facilitator.

E-mail George Njeru
Partnership Facilitator
George Njeru
Gnjeru@2scale.org
Project partners
Dryland Seeds Company (DSL)
Emerging Kenyan private seed company working together with partner organizations to develop and commercialize climate smart seeds
County government of Tharaka Nithi
Department of agriculture which provides government extension services
Koppert Biological Systems
Produces sustainable cultivation solutions for food crops and ornamental plants
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
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