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Fresh Produce Exporters Association of Kenya
• Kenya’s premiere association of Grower and exporters, since 1975.
• 100 exporter members. • Governed by Executive board,
secretariat (CEO and technical team). • 4 platforms: Marketing, capacity
building, advocacy, standards compliance
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Making Kenyan Horticulture the Global Choice
Kenya’s Horticulture industry • Private sector driven, since early
1960s. • Export oriented: EU, 80%, Middle East
15%, other regions 5% • Products include fresh legumes (6% in
UK), Flowers (30% in Netherlands), and tropical fruits (under 2%)
Making Kenyan Horticulture the Global Choice
• Sector employs over 1million directly and indirectly, involves over 100,000 smallholder
• Top Foreign exchange earner ($1 ¼ billion, ½ billion tons fresh produce per year)
• National Horticulture Policy (2012) coordinates regulation, research, planning of the industry.
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‘Small holder’ farmer
• 2-3 acres • Low income producer as low as $5000 pa • Typically multisystem (dairy, cashcrop,
grain, hort, aqua) on small holding • 60-70% export production. (number
decreasing) • Low access to information (prices) • Low technology
A typical smallholder growing export quality beans
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Compliance Challenges for small producers
• Capacity for meeting standards: Training and group certification efforts (KenyGAP)
• Monitoring of systems, including MRL, food safety, traceability : Exporter controlled QMS
• Hostile Value chain (low returns)
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ROLE OF GLOBALGAP IN SMALLHOLDER SECTOR
• Raising the bar on standard practice among producers, thus ensuring food safety
• Sustainable production (Life or death for Small holders) = production efficiency
• Aligning official controls system to International best practice
• Market access
FPEAK approach: • Training and implementation:
Simplification, training, and technology • Assistance to exporters to improve and
monitor small holder groups QMS (KenyaGAP)
• Lobby regulatory bodies to resource themselves appropriately
• Regional integration (EAGAP, HCA)
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Making Kenyan Horticulture the Global Choice
“Kenya-GAP”
3 pillars 1. Environmental
conservation 2. Workers welfare
and Safety 3. Food Safety
4 scopes: 1. All farm 2. Crops Base 3. Flower 4. Fruit &
vegetable,
A local Label, international standards FPEAK Owned scheme (FPEAK Code of
Practice) Benchmarked to GLOBALGAP
2 levels: 1. International 2. Domestic
KENYAGAP MANAGEMENT
Making Kenyan Horticulture the Global Choice
KSMC Standards Manager
FPEAK GLOBALGAP NTWG
CBs Audit Unit
Group Internal Auditors, farm inspectors
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Regional Integration • East African Horticulture industry
coalescing as region becomes more integrated. Ke, Ug, Tz, Bu, Rw, Et
• Regional trade increasing as populations urbanise. ($2 billion potential)
• Challenges to integration include standardisation of practices in the region.
“EAGAP” • EAGAP project: Enhancing market access
to the regions small holder farmers through standards implementation – Translation of GLOBALGAP into
Kiswahili version. – Production of a regional curriculum for
GAP training, and simplified training manuals
– Roll out of training and implementation of GAP across the region.
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Making Kenyan Horticulture the Global Choice
FPEAK-PTC
P.O. Box 40312-00100 Nbi 4th Floor New Rehema Hse,
Westland Tel/fax: 020-4451488/9
Contact:F.M. Wario 0722753851
THANK YOU!