Exporting French Beans

How easy is it to get export markets for this product?Niko na idle land nimeshatayarisha to grow French beans.The idea was to sell them locally to institutions and hotels but naskia market za UEA na Europe ziko fiti pia.How do I go about it?What certifications do I need before exporting?Sijapata much info online and I am very new in this area.Any advise is very much appreciated.Asanta.

Ongea na ule pilot wako.

How big is the idle land. Where is it? Ongea na hawa watu About Us – Fresh Produce Exporters Association of Kenya .

  1. The Capital outlay required is intensive.
  2. It’s best you start out as a contract farmer. Then learn the ropes under a company that has been in the game for a while. The other advantage of this is that your produce will be rejected while still in Kenya. Much better than getting some crushing news while your precious french beans are in some warehouse somewhere in Northern France.
  3. If you decide to go it alone. Your phone will give you trauma when it rings my friend. When your produce has been shipped out utakua unaskia kujiharia every time that thing rings. Absolutely not worth it for most small scale telephone farmers.

Pia ukumbuke kuna wazungu wakora pia. Your produce could be perfectly fine, but some broker somewhere knows you have no way of verifying if it’s in a dustbin somewhere or if it made its way to a supermarket shelf.
Also if you go independent. The number 1 most important resource you will need is a good agronomist. So many conmen in that sector. Find a good one and treat him well to retain him. Pia kama shamba iko mbali na utakua telephone farmer, weka kando budget ya kugongwa na farmhands. Anything you buy, jua pia umenunua yao and plan accordingly. Heri ununue plus yao wakule, than ununue tu yako na plants zako zikose nutrients.

:smiley: maliza kudni jangili sugu ya amar

Be nice

Kudni :D:D:D:D:D

Land yenyewe ni acre moja hivi nyuma ya Umma university ukielekea isinya.

:smiley: lucky bastard, what is the dholuo word for kunguni?

Hio si mbali. One acre I advice you do contract farming. They give you their own agronomist, their own products and they do the marketing for you. It takes away 90% of the stress of finding genuine products and a genuine agronomist. It also means you do not have to construct your own cold room. You deliver the produce to their location, if it meets export standards unalipwa pesa yako within 2 weeks. Hio biashara ingine ni yao. Wether they make tripple what they paid you or they make a loss, hio ni yao. In the mean time you take the opportunity to learn the ropes.
Certificates sio muhimu, kuna mingi floating around unaweza tumia to attach your produce. Muhimu is knowing how to grow produce that meets standards. That’s the biggest challenge, and the biggest opportunity. Once you get that locked, unatafut your own broker in Europe (wako wengi sana) and you can venture out solo, even attaching other people’s produce on you certification.

Local demand pia iko Kwa hoteli

Google translate imefika mashinani, from swahili to luo says kunguni is CHWARNI…

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kudni nafikiria ni insect in general

One acre ni ukulima gani utafanya ya export? Wacha jokes bana…

can do green houses and then outsource from small scalers when off season

Would then need to be a fulltime job -of which I dont think anaweza or rather intends to do- since it would entail drastically cutting down time and resources spent in dingy downtown brothels .

yeah one acre ukiwa na capital ya green houses unaweza…
@Agwambo si alisema ni birrionea with several high end bimas na wholesale import biz ya smartphones + petroleum products:D

umeamua kuwa optiven

@Agwambo vile umeambiwa hapo. but kitu naweza ongeza kuuliza. Uko na a reliable water source? kitu ingine ya kuangalia ni kama watu kwa hio area wanalima french beans, juu ili offtaker a contract watu ana depend na aggregating produce, so kama hio area watu wengine hawalimi ni tricky. so last point, lazima ikuwe french beans? juu kama kwa hio area watu wanalima kitu ingine inaeza kuwa sensible kulima chenye wanalima juu ya ease ya access to market.

That’s why am asking for advise here ghassia.Jikune kunyi kama huna content takataka.