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Del Monte Kenya Limited is a Kenyan food processing company that operates in the cultivation, production, and canning of pineapple products. [3] [4] Del Monte Kenya Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of Fresh Del Monte Produce Inc., is a leading producer, marketer, and distributor of high-quality fresh fruit and prepared food in Europe, Africa, and the Middle East.
Brookside Dairies is the largest milk processing company in Kenya, [4] [5] where it controls 45 percent of the dairy market, as at January 2016. [6] [5] The company's products, including fresh and powdered milk, yogurt and butter, [7] are distributed in the East African countries of Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda.
Agriculture in Kenya. Potatoes harvested from a Kenyan farm. Agriculture in Kenya dominates Kenya's economy. 15–17 percent of Kenya's total land area has sufficient fertility and rainfall to be farmed, and 7–8 percent can be classified as first-class land. [1][2] In 2006, almost 75 percent of working Kenyans made their living by farming ...
Industrial cheese production. Food processing is the transformation of agricultural products into food, or of one form of food into other forms. Food processing takes many forms, from grinding grain into raw flour, home cooking, and complex industrial methods used in the making of convenience foods. Some food processing methods play important ...
Secondary food processing is the everyday process of creating food from ingredients that are ready to use. Baking bread, regardless of whether it is made at home, in a small bakery, or in a large factory, is an example of secondary food processing. [32] Fermenting fish and making wine, beer, and other alcoholic products are traditional forms of ...
e. The agricultural system in Sub-Saharan Africa is a predominantly small-scale farming system with more than 50% of the agricultural activity performed by women, producing about 60-70% of the food in this region. [ 1] While women provide the majority of the labor in agricultural production, their access and control over productive resources is ...
Food security is the state of having reliable access to a sufficient quantity of affordable, nutritious food. The availability of food for people of any class and state, gender or religion is another element of food security. Similarly, household food security is considered to exist when all the members of a family, at all times, have access to ...
Sugar. Number of employees. 1,689 (2014) [1] Website. Homepage. Mumias Sugar Company Limited is a sugar manufacturing company in Kenya, the largest economy in the East African Community. It is the largest sugar manufacturer in Kenya, [2][3] producing about 250,000 metric tonnes (42%) of the estimated 600,000 metric tonnes annual national output.