AUGUST 2020 ISSUE
Meet the Exporter: Kisii Soapstone The Agency engaged Kisii soapstone players on positioning for exports and market access. The products are diversified and segmented into into gift items, decorative items, art decor, games artifacts like chess board, seasonal gifts categories to meet niche markets. NCE Screen For Updating Farmers On Coffee Prices At The Auction
Meet the Exporter: Coffee KEPROBA engaged Gusii Coffee Farmers Cooperatives Union on promotion of the coffee exports. The Union produces two million kilograms of coffee per season that is sold in bulk at the Nairobi Coffee Exchange auction. The cooperative has implemented value addition through crushing of the coffee beans which are packaged, labelled, branded as Gusii Coffee and sold within Kisii and its environs. KEPROBA will partner with the Union to position and brand Gusii coffee for market access in Russia, Korea, Japan and China.
Indigenous Vegetables KEPROBA engaged Suneka Jua Kali Association on Value addition initiatives for their indigenous vegetables which are solar dried, packaged and labelled for sell. The products include Cow peas, Spider plants, African nightshade and African s p i n a c h . T h e A g e n c y w i l l o f f e r s u p p o r t through capacity building on branding and packaging of the products, product development adaptation programme and market access.
Coffee packed through value addition with modern machines
Solar dried indigenous vegetables powder made by Suneka Jua Kali Associations
Dr. Marube is taken through the coffee processing technique
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