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East African Breweries Limited looking for 45,000 more farmers to grow sorghum

East African Breweries Limited (EABL) is currently looking for over 45,000 farmers across the country to grow sorghum after successfully mobilizing about 17,000 farmers in Nyanza and western Kenya region during the previous campaigns to supply the brewer’s Kisumu plant. The company has reported increased willingness among farmers in various parts of the country to …

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Beatrice Nkatha Demostrates how mechanism has improved Sorghum delivery

How former tailor grew to become a regional trader in sorghum

Beatrice Nkatha, Demostrates how mechanism has improved Sorghum delivery. A former tailor who found the work not giving her adequate returns decided to abandon it and venture in sorghum business in 2009, a business which has seen her trading in over 1,000 metric tonnes of the crop in Kenya and Tanzania hence meeting her needs. …

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Sorghum photo by One Acre Fund

EABL pays Sh1.5bn to its 60,000 small-scale sorghum farmers in the region

East African Breweries Limited (EABL) has paid Sh1.5 billion to 60,000 sorghum farmers in the region this year. The farmers who are small-scale growers are contract by the brewer to ensure steady supply of the raw material to its manufacturing plants. The company says it is looking to increase the supply of sorghum going forward …

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