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Kapa Oil Refineries has become the second edible oil producer after Pwani Oil to reveal how the dollar shortage in the midst of raw material rationing has disrupted its manufacturing.
The maker of a range of cooking oil and soap brands like Rina vegetable oil as well as Toss detergents said on Tuesday it was operating below its capacity at its refineries, citing the dollar shortage and constraints in the global supply chain for crude palm oil.
:D:D:Dni kama ma pro wakuiba mafuta ya transformer waliisha…Kuna time area yetu hatukuwa tuna maliza wiki bila stime kupotea ju transformer imekamuliwa
Just thinking, you mean transformer oil is cheaper than normal cooking oil, and is available in good quantities to go round? Coz a small fast food will consume more than ten litres per day.
Canola/rapeseed oil is made from a variety of sukuma wiki that flowers and produces seeds that are rich in oil. Which means anywhere sukuma can grow in kenya, canola oil can be produced. This is something that should be promoted. Infact most of the oil used in europe is canola/rapeseed. Also coast should be supplying us with coconut oil, western with groundnut oil, dairy farmers with cooking ghee/cream and beef farmers with animal fats for cooking. There are very many alternatives to imported palm oil.
Vegetable fat is different from vegetable oil, kimbo na kasuku are the former. Plus west Africans have been consuming palm oil probably for thousands of years na sioni wakikufa ju ya lifestyle diseases.