List Of Cereals In Kenya
Most people take a cup of tea or coffee with a toast of bread while others drink tea with a healthy breakfast dish like arrow roots and sweet potatoes. Others take an elaborate breakfast which is complete with yoghurt, bread, juice sausages, cereals and even fruits.
Many people have not fully embraced the use of cereals for breakfast as it looks more “unAfrican” or rather out of many’s pocket range.
They would rather take tea with mandazi or even porridge with some native tubers. As of now, the most preferred breakfast cereal brand is Weetabix with a value share of 47% followed by some margin by Proctor & Allan EA LTD with a value share of 15%, then followed by Nestle Foods Kenya Ltd at 13% and then Kellogg Co with a value share of 11% .
In this article Keweb.co tries to answer the question by publishing the full list of Cereals in Kenya
Below are the full List of Cereals In Kenya
Weetabix
Sorghum
Millets
Wheat
Maize
Rice
Maize: Support is needed to scale-up and deliver improved multiple stress tolerant, nutrient-use efficient and nutritious maize varieties, Curb the spread and impact of MLN, strengthen the maize breeding pipeline for enhancing capacity of NARES and SMEs, sustainable intensification of maize-based agri-food systems, and develop better Aflasafe products, aflatoxin management systems and delivery mechanisms.
Wheat: Support is required to enable the generation of improved and sustainable wheat based technologies and innovations suitable for different agro-ecological zones of Africa, and enhance the sustainable dissemination, scaling-up and promotion of wheat based technologies and innovations along the value chain.
Rice: Additional support is required to support the establishment of efficient rice seed systems, Africa-wide dissemination of climate resilient rice varieties, dissemination of good agricultural practices (GAP) to close yield gaps, improving quality management along the value chain, and investment in rice production and processing infrastructure
Sorghum, Pearl millet and finger millet: Additional support is required to enable the strengthening of the Crop Development Process, strengthen the seed production and delivery systems for improved varieties, empower farmers to enable them manage their natural resource base in a sustainable manner using integrated soil fertility and croplivestock systems management (e.g livestock providing a better enterprise option for smallholder farmers), crop rotation (e.g. the important of cash crops like cotton in terms of residual P and N for the subsequent legume and cereal crops, respectively), minimum or
conservation tillage systems, expedite the scaling out of new sorghum and millets technologies including products development, enable Farmers’ access to production inputs and markets, and strengthen and sustain the technology delivery system.
How profitable is cereal business in Kenya?
Returns vary depending on where you buy your stock and how aggressively you resell it. On average you get 25% net profit.