Safi Organics, a small enterprise located 100 km (60 milles) northeast of the Kenyan capital Nairobi, produces carbon-neutral fertilisers using a waste product from rice processing. With a scaling-up grant from the United States African Development Foundation, Safi is assisting local farmers mutiply yields and earnings.
Safi Organics is a social enterprise launched in 2015 with the goal of empowering smallholder farmers in Kenya's rural areas and transform their crop waste. The company employs a number of local ...
Kenya: Safi Organics Turns Farm Waste into Black Gold and Poor Farmers into Entrepreneurs
allAfrica, 18 May 2020
Mary Rigo has been a spinach and tomato farmer for the past decade a few minute's drive from here in Kirinyaga county, where she owns a two-acre farm about one hundred kilometres… Read more »
Safi Organics Co-Founder Samuel Rigu is joined by farmers who have used his products. Read more here, and see more »
Mr and Mrs Solomon Gate(customers of Safi Organics in a rice field applying the fertilizer
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