In order to fulfill the growing demand for our Agrico varieties, we continue to upscale our potato production in Nakuru region. This upscaling consists of investing in more farming equipment, further increasing our potato acreage as well as increasing the number of staff members. As a result more Kenyans can enjoy potatoes, crisps and chips grown and produced in Kenya, instead of importing these from other countries. In other words: “more local for local”!

One of the key challenges in potato farming is doing all the right things – land preparation, planting, spraying, fertilizing, harvesting, sorting, storing and dispatching - at the right time. The large size of our operations, our different production locations and the fact we are producing year round, puts a high pressure on the availability of the right equipment on the right place at the right time. Meanwhile the demand for our Agrico varieties keeps on growing. More and more farmers and processors from almost all Kenyan counties are eager to adopt our varieties. Delivering the demanded quantities of potatoes in exactly the right time thus becomes even more challenging than it already was.