Kenya Entrepreneurs - Cooking Oil ATM

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@Noapologies

When you’re sure, come back with facts tuongee

Go back to my initial statement and understand it.Its not about transformer oil

[shocks]

@paparazzi

If well utilised it can revolutionize the growing of crops such as sunflower locally for oil production. Though i have seen this before, and that milk atm, its a matter of time before it goes full throttle. In Mombasa shopkeepers do a thriving business selling ‘mafuta ya uto’ ie measured vegetable oils that go from as low as ksh 5-10. Convince farmers to grow oil producing crops through provision of hybrid seeds just like EABL does with sorghum farmers, form a cooperative, and its all systems go.

Shida ya hii ni refining, I think a refining plant is expensive thats why very few guys do it, most big farms just press and then take the crude oil to a refiner

[Uncle_Best]

@paparazzi

If well utilised it can revolutionize the growing of crops such as sunflower locally for oil production. Though i have seen this before, and that milk atm, its a matter of time before it goes full throttle. In Mombasa shopkeepers do a thriving business selling ‘mafuta ya uto’ ie measured vegetable oils that go from as low as ksh 5-10. Convince farmers to grow oil producing crops through provision of hybrid seeds just like EABL does with sorghum farmers, form a cooperative, and its all systems go.

Correct Bidco are conducting a visibility study on the growth of Simsim for cooking oil

[paparazzi]

@shocks

Shida ya hii ni refining, I think a refining plant is expensive thats why very few guys do it, most big farms just press and then take the crude oil to a refiner

@Uncle Best

Correct Bidco are conducting a visibility study on the growth of Simsim for cooking oil

I came across this on google; Partner Sought for Vegetable Oil Processing Business in Kenya

[girlciki93]

@spear

Hit or Miss - Your opinions

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nice vending machine
this is definitely a solution from the East (China, India, etc.)

[girlciki93]

What is bemusing is that is another sector of lost jobs (retail). We’ve already seen bank tellers reduced to agent bankers/MPesa. The future is interesting

[MortyTuumbo]

They should grow a lot of Canola.

[upepo]

What is the value proposition in this case? My shopkeeper sells liquid cooking oil in small quantities, which means such vending units may not take off unless they beat the shopkeeper’s price and convenience. Something else, cooking oil vending machines entered the market at the same time as the milk ATM, but the former have failed to gain traction. The most likely reason is that the set-up costs cannot be justified by the low volumes of product movement, coupled with a cheaper and more convenient alternative provided by the shopkeeper.

[S_Lilly]

This will help reduce the usage of plastic bottles, one glass bottle for refilling is all that is required. The cost of oil should be slightly lower as the bottling cost is not added.

[mtuko2]

@upepo

What is the value proposition in this case? My shopkeeper sells liquid cooking oil in small quantities, which means such vending units may not take off unless they beat the shopkeeper’s price and convenience. Something else, cooking oil vending machines entered the market at the same time as the milk ATM, but the former have failed to gain traction. The most likely reason is that the set-up costs cannot be justified by the low volumes of product movement, coupled with a cheaper and more convenient alternative provided by the shopkeeper.

Milk is bought daily but mafuta isa luxury

[detectivef]

any more images of the machines?