The company has limited deep freezer capacity, with which they store a few bird carcass and sometimes when the carcass are frozen customers have to wait for it to defrost while some impatient customers walk away.Having an own slaughter house they say is advantageous to them since the cost of hiring slaughterhouse services is expensive and eats into their profit margin. Power outages that last 2-3 days, make the frozen carcass go stale incurring losses and the power bills being costly at Ksh. 10,000 the expenses then go up. To  avoid incurring such losses, ASDSP II supported the business venture with a hybrid solar panel system equipped with an inverter and a hybrid battery.

Freshwater fish processing, like the processing of other food raw materials, should assure best possible market quality, provide a proper form of semi-processed of final product, assure health safety of products, apply the most rational raw processing method and reduce waste to the extent possible. Due to its chemical composition, fish is a perishable raw material. Fish flavour and texture change rapidly during storage after death. It is thus advisable in freshwater fish processing to keep the fish alive as long as possible. Actions focusing on quality assurance also involve transport and storage/depuration of the fish awaiting processing. At Jubilee market, fish scaling and filleting was being done in the open under very unfavorable conditions where the actors/ processors work under hot sun and or being rained on because of lack of shade, poor drainage, poor and inadequate work tops, and lack of flowing water leading to unhygienic fish handling conditions and therefore the need to construct the unit.

Pure solar dryers, size - 1.5 meters by 2 meters, with 3 dehydrating trays, 80 - 100 Kgs dehydrating sessions  

Pure solar dryers, size - 1.5 meters by 2 meters, with 3 dehydrating trays, 80 - 100 Kgs dehydrating sessions  

Plastic aerated big crates, size - 360mm height  by 395mm  width by 580mm length, Colour – Green  

kale seeds; Sweet Georgia F1 (50gms)                                                      Mfalme improved (50gms)                                                      Malkia curly kale (50gm)

Kale hydroponics, Kit features/ requirements · Area - 4 meters by 6 meters each side, design - A shaped (5 horizontal levels at each side totaling to 10 levels) · 4’’ PVC pipes · Spacing - 20cm from one cup to another · Growing cup diameter – 8cm with a minimum of 300 cups and end cups · Soilless growth media and nutrients, · Drinkers/feeders, · 200 Litres tank, · Pump · Holders/drips · Kale seedlings (Mfalme improved)  

The kit includes; · 60M head submersible pump-550W – 1 pc · Submersible cable 2.5M2 X 4core – 30 pcs · Solar panels 285 W – 2 pcs · Splicing Kit – 1 pc · Cable ties – 1 pkt · Double pole and enclosure – 1 pc · Flexible conduit – 12 meters · Float switch – 1 pc · Float switch cable  amurd 1.5MM 2 core – 20 pcs · Insulating tape – 5 pcs · Earth rod – 1 pc · Earth cable 6MM – 10 pcs  

Vegetable slicer, stainless steel body, 1 HP motor, capacity - 250kgs/hr  

Pure solar dryers, size - 1.5 meters by 2 meters, with 3 dehydrating trays, 80 - 100 Kgs dehydrating sessions  

Uses electricity and produces 

In the indigenous chicken value chain SIVCAP, inadequate supply of quality chicks was identified as major constraint leading to low productivity. The VCO was lucky to be one of the beneficiaries of ASDSP program, whereby they were trained on a several innovations including; brooding, biosafety and biosecurity measures, timely vaccinations, nutrition and feed formulations, disease control and general poultry management. To address the challenge of inadequate supply of quality chicks, members have taken the initiative by sourcing day old chicks from reputable organization (e.g. Murang’a hatcheries, kuku chick e.t.c) reared and later sell in different categories. With the innovation concept, ASDSP has identified this VCO to be among the beneficiaries of day old chicks and Black Soldier Fly kit, this is anticipated to breach the gap on low quality supply chicks and reduce the high cost of feeds respectively. The service provider attached to this VCO has been already trained on Black Soldier Fly production at KALRO  Ol Joro Orok through the support from ASDSP.