Updates from the farms

We are looking for partners

Our network now has about 1,825 farmers on more than 3,500 acres in Kilifi and Kwale counties. Weather is harder to predict, soils are tired, and farmers selling alone get a poor price. Cassava handles the dry seasons, and once it is dried and processed it sells for much more.

We want a cassava economy the farmers own: growing, collecting, processing and selling together. For that we are looking for grant funders, impact investors, development agencies, foundations and technical partners.

Selling cassava as flour, starch, chips and feed

Raw roots spoil within days of harvest. Turning them into flour, starch, chips or animal feed means less is lost after harvest and the farmer gets a better price for the same crop.

From 3,000 farmers to 10,000

Accelerate Africa Development (AAD) shared our numbers for 2023 and 2024: 2,200 farmers received cassava cuttings, and more than 3,000 farmers sold cassava into local and regional markets with our help.

By 2030 we want to work with 10,000 farmers in Kilifi, most of them women and young people aged 18 to 35.

Why we make briquettes from cassava

Cassava briquettes give less smoke and have a lower carbon footprint than charcoal. Plant cassava for briquettes, and stop cutting trees.

Raising funds for a cassava flour machine

A flour machine would let farmers turn their roots into flour that keeps for months and sells all year. Any amount helps us get there.

Market, training and farm visits

Farmers in the project now have a market for their cassava, free training and regular farm visits, and you can see it in their harvests. We thank God for the journey so far, and we are ready to serve more farmers.

Our first cassava briquettes

We celebrated our first production of cassava briquettes. Do not despise small beginnings.

Dry chips at 10% moisture, even in this season

Even in this season we dried our cassava chips to 10% moisture with only 3% dust. The chips are available now for briquettes, animal feed and bio-fuel.

Cassava cuttings available

Cassava pays better than maize: the gross margin per hectare is about three times that of maize. We have cuttings ready for planting.

Why cassava? Every part is used

Leaves are eaten as a vegetable, stems are cut and planted, and roots become flour and chips or are eaten fresh. Factories use cassava for baking, cardboard, packaging, beer, starch and glue, so there is always a market for chips and flour.

Dry chips in plenty, looking for buyers

We have plenty of dry cassava chips and we are looking for buyers. Get in touch if you use chips for feed, briquettes or processing.

Cuttings out across Kilifi County

We distributed cassava cuttings to farmers across Kilifi County. Here is the arithmetic: 4,000 cuttings to an acre, and at least 10 kg of roots from each plant, is a target of 40,000 kg an acre. Kilifi is not a desert, so let us not make it one. We are making Kilifi a cassava county.

The cassava dryer in Kaloleni

Our cassava dryer in Kaloleni is working. Drying is what turns a harvest that would rot in a week into chips that keep and travel.

Cassava project launched in Kaloleni

We launched the cassava project in Kaloleni Sub County, Kilifi, and saw the first products come out of the dryer.

Second harvest of green grams

The second harvest from our green gram farms in Ganze. It had not rained properly for two years, yet there was water in the water pans. Help us produce, do not just give us relief. We have enough land. Kilifi twaweza.

Kitchen gardens for Ganze Bamba

We began putting a kitchen garden unit in every household in Ganze Bamba: the start of food security there.

Shamba Project Kilifi launched

We officially launched Shamba Project Kilifi at our offices in Kilifi.