Suppliers/coops

Kenya’s fruit farming is basically in the hands of small holder farmers. Most donor programmers such as those by GTZ, USAID/KHDP have programs that work with fruit farmers to increase incomes through production and employment, involving tree crops and processed horticulture. The donor programs provides agronomic, processing, marketing and business development assistant to stallholder both directly and through partnership with other agribusiness stakeholders such as impute suppliers, processors, traders and exporters.  Key in this chain are suppliers who organize collection of the products and deliver to exporters - the suppliers or brokers. Hillsides sources 70% of its export fruits from suppliers, and balance from contracted farmers