I had stated in my previous report that we would keep you posted on our continued progress with the MFO Kenya harvest; well, the results are in.

 

We were able to harvest 706 bags of shelled maize (corn) at 90 kg each (200 lbs)!  That’s 70.6 tons of maize, or 2.35 tons of maize per acre!  This was the result of a very good season, including a great rain cycle and the focused attention of our project coordinator, Fredrick Oucho.

I love working with Fredrick.  He is full of vigor and is always looking for new ways to approach the challenges we face on a day-to-day operation such as farming.  He has been instrumental in the success of this project so far.

One of the challenges we face is the transport of the harvest to the storage locations as well as transport to the customers.  We are looking for ways to cut the cost of this major expense.  Our plans early on were to buy a tractor so that we could cut the costs of preparing the fields and harvesting, but we were never able to generate enough funds to purchase a good used one.  I believe Divine intervention was involved in this – and since then we have grown wiser in the real cost culprits (we believe) and we are now looking for a good truck to use for transport of the harvest and other items.  More on that as it develops.

Please feel free to contact us with any questions you may have regarding any aspect of the operations so far.