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31 Mar 2021
31st March 2021 0 Comments By Roy Komen Accountability and reporting, Field administration, News & Events

GSMA Data Management Webinar

eProd Solutions Ltd has become the Official Agent for Buhler (Pty) Ltd in the lines of business of cleaning, handling, and milling of grains, maize, millet, sorghum, and others), oil crops (sesame and sunflower), pulses (soy, common beans), coffee processing, green coffee handling, nuts handling (macadamia, cashew, pistachio, optical sorting, rice handling, and processing, covering the following Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda, Eritrea, Somalia, Burundi, Djibouti, South Sudan, and Sudan.

“There is great complementarity between the two businesses as we both offer services to the same commercial companies.”, says Almut van Casteren, MD eProd Solutions. The equipment market is very dynamic and established players constantly need to innovate to keep their market position. “eProd’s strength is to offer an advanced but affordable Supply Chain Management ERP which opens up new market opportunities for our company, and we are looking forward to a strong partnership”, Matthias Grabe, Managing Director, North East Africa – Buhler Ltd.

18 Dec 2020
18th December 2020 0 Comments By Mercy Muriithi News & Events

Buhler and eProd sign Agency Agreement

eProd official Buhler agent

eProd Solutions Ltd has become the Official Agent for Buhler (Pty) Ltd in the lines of business of cleaning, handling, and milling of grains, maize, millet, sorghum, and others), oil crops (sesame and sunflower), pulses (soy, common beans), coffee processing, green coffee handling, nuts handling (macadamia, cashew, pistachio, optical sorting, rice handling, and processing, covering the following Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda, Eritrea, Somalia, Burundi, Djibouti, South Sudan, and Sudan.

“There is great complementarity between the two businesses as we both offer services to the same commercial companies.”, says Almut van Casteren, MD eProd Solutions. The equipment market is very dynamic and established players constantly need to innovate to keep their market position. “eProd’s strength is to offer an advanced but affordable Supply Chain Management ERP which opens up new market opportunities for our company, and we are looking forward to a strong partnership”, Matthias Grabe, Managing Director, North East Africa – Buhler Ltd.

Parent company Bühler Holding AG is a Swiss multinational plant equipment manufacturer. It is a global market leader known for plant and equipment and related services for processing foods and manufacturing advanced materials. The organization holds leading market positions worldwide in the fields of technology as well as processes for transforming grain into flour and animal feeds, producing pasta and chocolate, and manufacturing die-cast components.

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18 Dec 2020
18th December 2020 0 Comments By Mercy Muriithi News & Events

UNDP Business Call to Action: How agritech can enable resilience in small farming communities

Farmers Harvesting Chilli peppers

Launched at the United Nations in 2008, Business Call to Action (BCtA) aims to accelerate progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by challenging companies to develop inclusive business models that engage people at the base of the economic pyramid (BoP) as consumers, producers, suppliers, distributors of goods and services and as employees.

One of the very first BCtA members accepted to the community is Equator Kenya Ltd. The company demonstrates that market leaders can offer successful, profitable, and scalable models for reaching poor communities and contributing to global development. Equator Kenya Ltd is contracting in a sustainable way thousands of small scale chili farmers, of which 70% are women, at the coast of Kenya. The backbone of the company is eProd and it has offered a Supply Chain Management ERP to Equator Kenya Ltd. since its early days. Almut van Casteren, MD of both companies: “Equator Kenya Ltd has a strong Sustainable Inclusive Business Agenda. This is only possible because of eProd as it assists to reduce costs and makes processes more efficient.”

The Guardian has published an article about how agritech can enable resilience in small farming communities. Click here for the full article. info@eprod-solutions.com

18 Nov 2020
18th November 2020 0 Comments By Roy Komen Accountability and reporting, Capacity building, News & Events , , , , ,

TIC pour les chaînes des valeur agricoles (French Session)

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Please join us for: TIC pour les chaînes des valeur agricoles (French Session)

At ICTforAg2020 we explore tools, initiatives, and technologies that make resilience a reality. eProd will present during the TIC pour les chaînes des valeur agricoles, a French session on agricultural value chains.

Speaker: Almut van Casteren

Date: 18th November, 05:45 PM EAT

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16 Nov 2020
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Scaling AgTech Start-Ups and How These Start-Ups Will Lead Africa To New Heights

Please join us for: Scaling AgTech Start-Ups and How These Start-Ups Will Lead Africa To New Heights

Africa remains the most food-insecure region in the world and a net importer of food despite the potential. AgTech is considered to be a  solution to this problem. What impact has it mad to the industry and what does the future hold for AgTech. How can we scale these start-ups to move Africa closer to being the “food basket of the world!?

Moderator: Jan Willem van Casteren

Date: 18th November, 14:00 CAT

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16 Nov 2020
16th November 2020 0 Comments By Roy Komen News & Events

Digital Disruption in Agriculture – Virtual forum announcement

The second annual Digital Disruption in Agriculture forum happening virtually brings together leaders and innovators from across the agriculture value chain to identify digital tools and solutions that can help transform Ethiopia’s, and the region’s, agricultural sector. Digital technologies in agriculture can lead to greater efficiencies that help countries advance agricultural practices and connect small scale producers to larger markets. 

The use of digital technologies in agriculture remains limited in many low-income countries, often because of infrastructure, affordability, awareness, and regulatory issues. The World Bank Group is working to identify promising digital products and services that can be applied to improve agriculture practices and yields, bettering the lives of small scale farmers, and improving countries’ economies.

eProd Solution is proud to be one of the selected digital technologies that can lead to these greater efficiencies. Please visit our virtual booth on November 18th from 17:00-17:30 EAT.

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26 Oct 2020
26th October 2020 0 Comments By Mercy Muriithi Field activities

Traceability from the field to the packhouse

Traceability Video

Why is traceability important?

As the agricultural sector intensifies and food is shipped globally, food safety is becoming a major concern. Where does our food come from? How can consumers trust food that is produced far away from their homes, often in countries where legislation regarding for example, the use of pesticides is absent, or enforcement is weak?

Measuring residue levels of agrochemicals or microbiological contamination in the final product can be done to some extend but is a huge additional cost and often a burden for the environment. Therefore, the focus in the food industry has always been on process control. Where in the process could something go wrong? By mapping the process and analyzing the food safety hazards, these can be reduced. This process is commonly known as HACCP, which stands for Hazard Allowance Critical Control Points. For example, when engine oil is transported on the back of same truck that is used to carry sacks of cocoa beans, this could easily result in contaminations of the cocoa throughout the cocoa value chain. Traces on mineral oil can end up in the chocolate bar. In fact, as detection methods improve constantly, the large industrial companies, such as Nestle, Ferrero Rocher and Mars, do check for residues of pesticides. As detection methods improve it is possible to raise the bar, but also the costs…  Mineral oil contaminations, or MOSH/MOAH, are forming a huge challenge while they could not easily detect low contamination levels until recently. However, checking the contamination in the raw material, at the buying centres for example, would only partially assist to reduce contamination risks. It is important to be able to trace the contamination backwards in the chain. In other words; trace the produce from the factory, to the farmer cooperative, to the bag, to the collection centre, to the farmer and his or her field that the cocoa beans came from. This is where the more challenging part starts. READ MORE

14 Oct 2020
14th October 2020 0 Comments By Roy Komen News & Events

BMGF Annual Conference announcement

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The 2020 Grand Challenges Annual Meeting (19th – 21st October) is an annual event organized by Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. As part of this event the Ideas Marketplace offers researchers, companies, and project teams a platform to present their work to specialists and leaders in both the digital farming and crop analytics ecosystems.

eProd Solutions is proud to have been invited to showcase how its Supply Chain Management platform for the agricultural sector is pushing the boundaries of innovative digital small holder production systems. The eProd presentation will join three others in a sub-track entitled “Finance and Insurance Services” , moderated by Stewart Collis, Senior Program Officer, Digital Solutions, Agricultural Development at the foundation.

The Marketplace will occur during the second session of the 2020 Annual Meeting on Tuesday 20th October between 14:00 and 20:00 EAT . For more information please visit the Grand Challenges website or contact info@eprod-solutions.com.

22 Sep 2020
22nd September 2020 0 Comments By Roy Komen News & Events

Building for the Long-term: what is an Inclusive Business

Equator Kenya, a food-processing company that produces African Bird’s Eye Chilies for export, has joined in 2015 the Business Call to Action (BCtA) with a commitment to provide climate-smart technologies, training and market linkages to 8,000 smallholder farmers along the Kenyan coast. This inclusive business is designed to reduce the crop risks posed by climate change, which will sustainably increase incomes among the farmers (+6,000 of whom are women) as well as improve crop yields and quality.

Side by side with multinationals such as IKEA, in Equator Kenya was among the first batch or private sector members of BCtA to join.  “Equator Kenya’s business model is guided by a social inclusion strategy where no farmer – however small – is excluded,” said Almut van Casteren, the company’s CEO. “By creating linkages throughout the value chain, we will ensure that our profits – and the benefits to poor communities in Kenya’s coastal region – continue to grow. We are honoured to be recognised by the Business Call to Action and look forward to leveraging their expertise and that of our fellow members to further our work.” READ MORE