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[00:00:00]may be largely excluded from the form of credit even before the cup was introduced. But for large firms uh they show resilience um such that uh they were still favored by the banks and so they could still access credit during that period. But now when we include uh controls in the model like um when you control for farm age and size um we see that older farms had deeper relational capital uh to negotiate trade credit. And so um but now when you look at the location where the farm was located, we see also location really mattered. And so for small city based uh enterprises they were initially high performers but now when the um the cup was in introduced they started facing financing challenges uh with with with this um with the small city based funds um reporting uh 72% fewer sales than their rural counterparts. So this implies that uh maybe in the city there was high competition um that meant then accessing credit um was still a challenge for them.

[00:01:17]>> Thank you. V should be finalizing because the time is up.

[00:01:21]>> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Sure.

[00:01:26]So I'll just go straight to the conclusion of this study.

[00:01:30]So from this study what we see is that um the cap itself as it was introduced it acted as a regressive policy instrument while it was intended to protect the small players those are the smallmemes.

[00:01:45]Um it's it actually benefited the large enterprises. Um also we see that there was a decline in sales for the medium firms. uh which implies that um the the introduction of the cup was more of a structural challenge other than um than just being a financial challenge. So um so we conclude that social capital is a functional economic asset and that in the absence of formal bank business advisory social networks such as uh get information from suppliers and the customers themselves had to step in um to provide um a buffer to these uhmemes during that period. So thank you so much.

[00:02:33]>> Yes, thank you so much Beatrice for the presentation. I think uh some learning points we have picked from there some good questions are following up because it's a good model but in estimation there's some questions coming so we stand by so we have another presentation for the next 15 minutes and then we'll open the plinary for the questions I think if you don't have the papers and you are interested in following up on something the papers are there you can the lady please carry your hand so that they can see you anybody who is interested can go ask her to give you the papers we want the written comments because sometimes the plenary might not be enough for all of us so you can get the paper you can write some questions then we'll send to bet because Pet I think is a PhD students I've seen something like that if that is correct bit is a PhD student somewhere so it needs a lot of support in terms of this because the modeling and how you put the variables going to the model is a question so the last presentation please uh from colleagues so we have a fostering efficient innovation ecosystem for digital economy so this is a physical presentation so bes you can also enjoy this physical present presentation. It is a 15 minutes presentation of the case studies about innovations that works in developing countries like Kenya. So thank you so much my brother. So you have 15 minutes by the time now it is 1025 we'll be around around 20 there. So thank you so much.

[00:03:56]Okay.

[00:03:58]Hello.

[00:03:59]Hello.

[00:04:02]Uh good uh good morning everybody.

[00:04:09]Thank you. So uh thank you chair. Good morning uh colleagues.

[00:04:14]I am Hillary Nadua from Katnopolis and uh here we have our other colleagues.

[00:04:21]uh Kenola I want to just w to members that's Ken our lead economist >> and we have other two economists who support us uh Francis Muru and Ken Pesa >> so jointly worked on this research in collaboration with Kipra and we want to give the output of the feedback also to recognize is our a member of our senior management John Budi who leads the department he's the acting uh he's the chief manager for corporate research and strategy at console. So we are well established to make this presentation.

[00:04:55]So the presentation is fostering efficient innovation ecosystems for digital economies and is a case study for consopolis.

[00:05:06]I'll go to the introduction.

[00:05:10]So uh we find in our study we found that digital economies are very important drivers for our economic and for our industrial uh revolution in Kenya and also in the development of our digital economy. We also established that uh smart city enables the economies to thrive as it brings together the public sector, the academia, investors, startups and also research institutes.

[00:05:36]And uh this study mainly evaluates the efficient efficiency of coat technopolis to build that kind of uh ecosystem that will bring together the operation of the public sector, academia, investors and research institutes within one location so that they can together support the development of our innovations and the thriving of our econom digital economy.

[00:05:59]Problem statement. Uh the paper examined the following problems. One was empirical evidence on limited uh innovation through the following.

[00:06:12]We found that a lot of a lot of literature that currently exists focuses on infrastructure and policy whereas they don't focus on the actual ecosystem that drives these innovation systems. We also established that there's limited uh participation of the public sector and also there's weak lead of academia collaboration which is coupled by limited financing and affects our knowledge flows and institutional capacities to enhance knowledge economy within Kenya. Finally is that the paper establishes the how consopolis as a smart city can be used to sustain and enhance the development of our innovation ecosystem within Kenya and within the wider digital economy of the country.

[00:07:00]What were the objectives of this study?

[00:07:01]The objectives were as follows.

[00:07:03]Objective one was to establish the efficiency of innovation ecosystems in Kenya.

[00:07:09]Through this we looked at various innovation ecosystems and the structure of our local innovation and also the structure of the local uh digital economy within Kenya. Uh we also had objective of assessing the levels of collaboration between the government, academia and the industry also known as the triple helix. And this study under that we aimed to Hello.

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[00:07:51]>> Mute.

[00:07:58]>> Hello.

[00:08:00]Okay. Uh thank you for that. So the paper also assesses the level of collaboration between the triple helix that is the government, academia and the industry and then it also has objective of strengthening innovation ecosystem by giving policy recommendations that can be acted upon by various actors to ensure that we have a robust ecosystem within Kenya and then the ultimate goal is also to highlight the positioning of coat polies as part of the solution to the identified gaps that we have in the country.

[00:08:31]So under the policy context we found the following policy policy gaps. First one was uh insufficient coordination of the local policies to support the innovation ecosystems and under this we notice that there's a lot of fragmentation at the policy level on the actor and also the siloing of the actors of the players in the innovation ecosystem. We also noticed that there's less attention to the outcome oriented mechanisms such as the you know you in commercialization of innovations market access by the startups and also the driving or the continuous drive from the demand side for the products of innovations.

[00:09:10]We also established that there's currently there's inadequate grounding on smart city in the policy and also the legal architecture of the country though this one actually changed I think last week on Tuesday because there's a new law that was enacted by the government.

[00:09:23]So the positioning is actually more more grounded now the law is technopoly bill of 2026. So this new law actually is part of the part framework to enhance the grounding. And then finally we also establish that there's currently you have implementation gaps uh especially for the critical determinance of innovation in the country.

[00:09:49]on the literature review we viewed the three frameworks and the frameworks were as follows the innovation ecosystem theory and also we looked at the triple helix model and the dution theory because of time I'll not go into each in detail so I'll just mention them as these are our grounding frameworks and under these they all aim to enhance the interaction of the institutions to spur innovations and also to interplay with the technology ology and within the digital economies.

[00:10:23]>> I do.

[00:10:25]>> Uh now looking at all this through the lens of Katapolis, we found that Kat Napololis is an important infrastructure for the digital economy and innovation ecosystem as it establishes uh infrastructure both physical and virtual and digital such as the data center connectivity. It also offers the smart city services and other digital capacities. The smart city services offered include uh infrastructure data as a service and also various physical locations for the innovators to come live, work and play. Other than that we also found that uh currently we have low actor we have low innovation actor density. We also have limited >> private sector participation and also we have weak venture capital presence in Kenya which affects the intensity of our knowledge ecosystems and also innovation ecosystems within Kenya.

[00:11:21]Now on this we found that con technopololis if well implemented will enhance the strong infrastructural readiness and spur the innovation the integration of farms into our digital economies and also cause the interplay of the university and entrepreneurs in sparting our innovation systems. Also we found that Katak Napole plays a key role in division of innovations.

[00:11:42]Uh as a being one of the uh country's chosen area for innovations and innovation hub we believe that we'll be able to diffuse innovations from a central location towards uh nationally and also regionally.

[00:11:59]So under this we under this to spur the innovation we have the various projects that are going at connopolis like we have the Kenya advanced institute of smart city institute of science and technology which is one of the leading research universities that will focus on diffusion of research within Kenya and beyond.

[00:12:18]uh on the empirical literature we found the following.

[00:12:23]The studies that reviewed also point towards the strong institutional coordination of research actors within Kenya. It also highlights the importance of uh uh investing on trust systems reciprocity and also engaging our invest our stakeholders in the innovation ecosystem for longer durations in a structured means. for example, having a long-term contracts with our venture capitalists to ensure they able to survive their test of time. The study also emphas emphasizes on the infrastructure in addition with other provisions to support uh the innovation ecosystem and also as an uh point of meeting for the collaboration networks and other uh capabilities.

[00:13:13]The next one is on the knowledge economy and innovation what we found on the literature review. So our study found that uh there's a strong nexus between knowledge economy and sustainable innovation outcomes as we quote as found one of the studies by by Vora in 2024 which notes that uh knowledge creation dusion and absorption uh they serve as core energies with for regional developments. You also establish that cities with weak research systems and limited postgraduate training often experience innovation gaps and and also which also affects their uh performance and development in terms of digital economy.

[00:13:56]Uh we also found that uh limited research capacity on smart cities such as Kat Napole produces innovation gap within the country.

[00:14:06]Now uh a summary of these gaps that we identified in the literature as follows.

[00:14:10]There's limited application of innovation theories in the African context. There are inefficient innovation metrics for early stage ecosystems such as conactus which is at its early stages. We also have low comparative uh advantages due to limitations of data uh data that we can use to compare and we have produced data which we publish annually in the in the economic survey by K&BS. uh we found that uh in the financial year 2 23 to 24 >> 5 minutes >> we had varying trends that linked to our innovations. Okay. And then after that we had a decline in innovation from 2023 to 2024 and we had a rise in the following year which is 2024 2025 to the current year we've had a rise in terms of our innovation outputs at KZA and also the number of uh innovations that we've developed has grown over the duration that we reviewed which uh signals us to a positive uh innovation uh ecosystem and a strengthened interplay of various actors within our innovations in Kenya.

[00:15:17]So in terms of uh the purpose of this study was also to bring out various policy implic implications and recommendations to the government and all actors and these are as follows. We noted that uh the current policy landscape we have the fragmentation of the governance. You also noted that there are weak academia and industry linkages which limits our commercialization of innovations.

[00:15:41]We also established the risk of underutilization of the early demands.

[00:15:46]uh we also noted that uh scaling of these innovations and the startups is mainly due to limited access of finance among other other other causes and also noted that uh so I'll proceed because of time now in terms of the challenges I'll just highlight the three we identified uh the various gaps in terms of the innovation ecosystem uh the there's coexistence of multiple policies across different sectors which causes fragmentation and also noted that uh we need to focus on the execution rather than policy formulation alone.

[00:16:25]Once formulate the policies we need to ensure that we move to the implementation. So the last parts of my presentation are as follows on the recommendations that we highlighted for from this study. We need to establish a one-stop shop that will offer operational autonomy to the startups for for example bring together the regulators together and also the enablers like a KPSA and others and also can invest together under one roof at Katak. There's need to invest in human capital. They need to develop uh and prioritize infrastructure that is geared towards service uh exports so that our innovators can have a way of exporting their solutions once they commercialize. You also noted that uh we need to introduce and strengthen our intellectual property collaterization framework. There's need to create a regulatory sandbox for the market entries whereby we have a deliberate efforts to lower some of the thresholds for our ent uh new entrance into the innovation system and also the new really commercializing agencies or startups. In conclusion, our study uh concludes by noting that uh there's the success of digital economies and smart city development are intertwined with a strong innovation ecosystem. And that Kaza success the success of Katnopolis uh also is also uh facilitated by the physical assets in addition to the shift in government policies to enable in innovation within Kenya. And then finally is that the long-term success of contact npopolis depends on the ability of the government le infrastructure projects to adapt to the dynamic and also to embrace collaboration and also enhance the surviving of a sustaining self-sustaining innovation ecosystem within the country. So that is the end of my presentation. Thank you.

[00:18:28]>> Thank you so much my brother. Let's give them a hearty hand clap.

[00:18:35]They have done a good job. I think uh I want to open a plenary. Uh but before we do that he has saved us some one minute there. So after that what we'll do we'll do discussion around like 10 minutes and then the papers are there. You can get the paper at your free time give some writing written comments so that it's easy for them to follow because all of us can't be here. We take 10 minutes then we want to break for tea because uh then tea will be served the normal place so that we don't miss tea. Then uh we'll wait there until the deputy president finishes the speech. Then we'll come back for a serious discussion continuing. But to open this I want to start as a chair to open s to ask some questions. And uh when you asking the questions the way I think you need to also try to mention the name who is this person you addressing which paper because we have the three one or you can just mention the papers uh if you don't know the names just give your question.

[00:19:28]So I want to just start on some very few questions that interest me so much. If you go to the value chain paper the one for Kea Kea you had a very nice story about enterprise network participation and value chain innovation. Somebody would be interested how do social networks or networks affects innovations and this one but you come to the results that information that question is not answered. So you set your own question you fail to answer it. It becomes very hard for somebody to follow up. Let me take you back way up to speed on table one.

[00:19:59]Yes. After the model there then you find there a lot of stories there. A lot of story. Your sample size on table three tells me non global value chain and global chain is 1,182 and then non global value chain participant is 228.

[00:20:17]But when you go to the regression so that is my sample size that I'm picking.

[00:20:20]You go to the regression downstairs.

[00:20:22]Let's say you go to regression table 5.

[00:20:24]The sample size now becomes 48, 488, 4, 488, 489. Then you ask yourself where did others go? Because that is very important. If you go to table even six, you find the same same mistake. You find now this one the sample is now 1,270.

[00:20:40]Then becomes a bit of a problem. I think there's some need of cleaning up and then how you measure the variables. We don't see the descriptive of the variables before you they enter the model so that we know how they look like before they enter the model. You see some are logged but we don't know how they are before they are logged. So there's a little issues that need to be done there. That is on general then on the regulatory framework one regulatory shocks. So there are three issues that the kefa and the friends wanted to address there but you find there are a lot of confusion kogo because let me just be very clear on the regulatory because there are three things shocks fintech social connection and performance so performance I see you measure it there but when you come to the let's say the baseline model you see you divide that one you see the sample size is very very different is now 388 but when you go that is table 5.1 but when you go to your Table this this is table what on descriptive table four you see the sample size should be 230 333 233 2013 2018 you go to the regression you get sample that is bigger than what you told us as a sample then that one is a problem then it's not very easy to pick what you wanted to say then on the table four again you find the descriptive that you have there is too much I go check them in the result section on the on the analysis you find some that you have described here we have not used in the model where are you describing them. Some of them are missing during the baseline of 2013. But then you still maintain them there like shocks. Shocks is only in one year that is a 2014 but you don't see it in 2013.

[00:22:13]So somebody would be interested how did it enter the model because now it is a cross-section now because it's not in both seasons. So it's a cross-sectional variable. So and then you enter the model then the model is not a cross-sectional then sometimes becomes a bit of a challenge when you don't see them in both side but I stand corrected.

[00:22:29]Those are my views but I'll put them in writing. So I think I want to open the questions. Yeah I think N you can carry you everybody will carry the hand and then within the 10 minutes then the presenters please make sure you are picking the questions so that you can answer them like in the next like uh some 2 minutes or three.

[00:22:46]>> Thank you so much. Yeah my name is and uh I've listened to three presentation and the first one is for kea uh it talks about innovation. So when we talk about f chain we talk about the entire chain including backward and forward linkages but now when it comes to innovation it's part of upgrading so which are these uh innovations and where specifically are needed along the fogen which not that's number one number two she talks about competitiveness and competitiveness holistically requires several issues that can do away with competitiveness, bottlenecks and several market failures. And Fernandez atal 2012 talked about how to improve the agro food value chains and they give a very smart model where you use one you access high value markets. Number two, you talk about training because some of these actors along the value chain lack some skills and training is a major component. And then thirdly, Fernandez talked about coordination and collaboration. I hope you understand because those some of them are horizontal, others are are vertical.

[00:24:09]And then uh in that note again uh I like the fact that you use the division diversion theory uh but it is for basically for adaption dynamics but I didn't see which innovations have actually been diffused to these particular actors and how best can we actually assist these actors to fully utilize that particular pathway that they have chosen.

[00:24:36]uh I have talked about which innovations which needs to come out very clearly. Uh he talks about the other farms.

[00:24:46]Why are the farm are the farms that have adopted adopt?

[00:24:51]Why are those not that are those which have not adopted? What are the barriers?

[00:24:58]because here we talk about policy and we need to give directions and then uh I didn't see him considering uh several other faggens which we all know that they are globally uh perspective we talked about tea we talked about coffee avocado is one of the major uh product in Kenya which is gaining a lot of interest especially as far as global polygen is concerned And then uh I didn't see in this particular paper where issues to do with competitiveness, productivity and job creation because that is the ultimate outcome.

[00:25:43]So I think there is a need for that to come out very clearly. And then uh second to last poison is account uh model and he is talking about dution adoption.

[00:25:57]Adoption is just a choice. Many of these actors are very rational. Why go to count in if if you think that these particular uh operators or actors have actually adopted maybe one or two or three why count? Why don't you use multivariate profit or multinomial logit model? But you need to be very careful with multinomial because there are a lot of assumption especially the independent and relevant assumption which you need to take care of that. So why not go to multifariate so that you take care of those particular operators or actors who are adopting one two three what makes that to happen and then there is a co causal relationship that he mention and I was wondering in the theoretical perspective where is the topic or why don't you use the negative binomial model so that or even zero inflated uh poison model. You know those are the options which actually address some challenges that is being faced by what has been presented but private partnership there is an element that he mention about forward African forward and uh when you talk about pathways you need to be very clear because that is a route that actually follows the sustainable uh development framework which was actually developed by chambers in 1992 but it was improved by UK in 2000. So those are the issues but now in innovation make sure that you bring the issue of adaptation you bring the other issue of mitigation and you bring the issue of resilience.

[00:27:53]Resilience is key and I want betric to capture that because we are working about resilience. How can we prevent our farmers so that they can observe shock and recover as much as possible due to unexpected shock? Thank you. So let me stop there but I'll share my comments for the other presenters because the chair is on my neck. Thank you.

[00:28:12]>> Thank you so much. Thank you so much. Uh Dr. No. I think that is a good uh overview of what you have done. So but we want them in writing. Put them in writing. So BB standby. You getting the comments before the close of the today.

[00:28:24]So I want to open the floor. Anybody with a question please go ahead introduce yourself and then ask the question in 2 minutes maximum.

[00:28:32]>> I'm terren uh young professional uh mine is directed to the second presenter.

[00:28:39]According to the title, I saw a period of 2020 to 2025. But uh on your findings, the period uh that you've collected data is 2013 and 2018, which I think is way a stand to be corrected, but uh I think not within the study period. I I also looked at the R the R squar of your data. they are way below 50%, so I don't know if they can explain your study. And uh the last thing uh I heard of you mentioning the capping interest rate of 2016. I think over the past eight years there have been corrections and uh on your based on your study period uh I think there are lot of interest rates uh regulations that have been made the one which you've mentioned has was repealed in 2019 and right now uh you think the one which includes Quason is the one in action thank you >> thank you my brother so Okay. Uh thank you. My name is Jalanga uh from Parliament. Uh my question I have only two I have two questions for the first presenter. One is that um when you're looking at the issue of enterprise um the issue of adoption of technology there is what we say that um supply creates its own demand and from there how would you be able to um align the issue of compliance quality and standards to that um uh to the innovations because you've talked the the issue of um breaching uh the issue the the issue of the demand for the trademarks uh the industrial application and also the utility models I've come I've come out from your presentation but out of that how can we be able to align that to the element of consumption uh the compliance quality and the standards uh within that then for bitries um my colleague there has actually captured what I wanted to say in terms of the repeal of uh 2019 but again immediately after that there were there was uh the COVID 19 which also was one of the shocks that came in immediately after the repeal of um that section um the repeal of the banking act but currently we also have the credit uh credit pricing model that was actually uh that has been uh submitted by um central bank. So we need to see how uh that interplay comes in and also the regulation of the digital uh service providers. Thank you so much.

[00:31:23]>> Thank you my brother. I want to give my senior to have a comment one or two.

[00:31:28]>> Thank you very much. I'm Dr. Tomia George research mentor to Kipra. Uh this is the day that uh we are giving to young people to give comments because this is our own and we are just happy that you become open and explain everything so that eventually we improve on these papers. So it's important that when you are given this chance kindly talk so that we get quality papers when we eventually publish them they're actually meeting the standards the world standards that we require. Thank you so much.

[00:32:04]>> Yes.

[00:32:07]>> Thank you. My name is Timothy Meti Young Sy. Um what I would like to say I would like to refer to Keas paper and mine is is a comment on that particular paper.

[00:32:20]He's talking about enterpresses and uh and and innovations and I would like to refer him to the Miles and Snow typology 1978 that was that is a theory that a strategic business theory framework that was brought on board by Raymon Charles and Miles no whereby he talks about enterprises or as businesses as um he categorizes businesses into four into four categories that is the prospects, we have the analyzers, we the defenders and according to the presentation that he's talking about whereby we are talking about enterprises and uh innovations I think the prospects uh enterprises look at pursuing innovations while the analyzers look at maintaining market stability so according to his presentations I really I I I think he can really refer to that particular typology for relation thank you >> thank you so much I think because the tea is there and is we don't want to be late like yesterday. So the comments all of them please write them and then forward them to me or you can forward them to our secretary who is our secretary who is receiving. Please the secretary is here. Please write the comments whether it is just written in a handwritten in the paper. Please do that and then give them to the lady. just mention the the outline is here so you can know the topic of what you are addressing because we want to break out 40 and then the last question as a chair I have to ask a question on the ecosystem group the technopolis the three questions they set themselves three questions establish the efficiency of innovation ecosystem access the level of collaboration and then I think strengthen innovation ecosystem but I didn't see how did you measure that I didn't see the result of what whether they are just looking at the literature so what is going on how did you measure the efficiency because they wanted to establish the efficiency of ecosystem.

[00:34:08]So what is the efficiency? What are you trying to measure because that one was not coming out so that somebody can say you set yourself a question you should tell me the result is this. You set this. The second one is access assess the level of collaboration. How did you ac you assess that? Is there some matrix that you followed or you followed some papers or you looked at the literature so that you do like a theoretical just a literature review of what is going on in that space is not coming out nicely. as you know sometimes it might be on the paper I didn't have a time to get the paper but I think we'll have a discussion around that because the questions that you set yourself the three of them all of them were not answered so I think that is something that I think I would be interested to discuss and then see the paper and I know there are people and my senior is also asking me the last last question but let's just break for tea I think my name is silas I didn't introduce myself before I work for kera we can have talk as we go for coffee thank you so much and then we come back after the talk of the uh DP DP deputy president then thank you so much let's break all the questions sent to the our lady all of them sent to precella if you're within the keepra network the lady is called precilla so don't ask us anything right the question you can give in the course of today as we break 40 you can hug say hi to somebody don't just walk alone say hi to somebody so that you can know one or two person because that is the intention why we are here I think I don't know if we leave the laptops but I don't know how safe it is. It is safe.

[00:35:40]Yes, please you can leave your laptops here because there's security here. So if it is get lost then you will be paid.

[00:35:47]That is what I've been told. So if you leave your laptop and a bag please make sure they will be safe but you can carry them and then please come with a friend in the afternoon after they talk so that we are so many we want a serious discussion for this. Thank you so much.

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[00:37:18]That is done. That is done in three stages. we have the uh the ripe the unripe and the half ripes so that we don't have a lot of shakes during the movement of mango to the proing plant.

[00:37:30]So the ripe ones are then taken to the pro whereby we have your four major steps before you get the crips we have the washing of the mangoes for also we have the peeling that is done manually. You also have the slicing to have to sized to achieve the size of the crips. So after there the slices are put in the prepar to they are moved to the preparation area whereby we have the solution that is the preservative. So they are dipped there for 10 minutes then spread into the dry.

[00:38:09]They then moved to the dry chambers for 6 hours with monitor with a monitor of the relative humidity and temperatures.

[00:38:17]So the crips are able to to be produced in a span of 6 hours. So one dryer carries at minimum of 250 kgs. So uh in one shift because we have two dryers we able to produce half a ton. So in two shifts we able to produce one t of mango grapes. So from there after 6 hours we then move them to the temporary storage whereby we pack them in into the translucent buckets whereby uh we wait for the customers and also we do the batching. Uh the buckets helps us to monitor uh the shelf life and also the product and also ease of transportation.

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[00:41:20]coffee I said is actually the crop that occupies quite a good number of acre range dominating is crop number one and so what we do here we have a factory inside the hero farm so after picking uh the coffee is taken to the factory for ping and then the archbishop also introduced the roster The roster house is also meant to uh roast the coffee and after roasting we ground the coffee and after ground we back now ready for use and this actually has also generated quite a good number a good amount amount of money to the houses. So and in terms of selling our coffee has attracted so many buyers both locally and internationally and so by doing uh the bishop is able to sustain the farm by selling some of those products for tea. Uh internally we do not we have not started valuing the tea but what we do after picking our tea we partner with the tea factory so they are our buyers so we do not pack our tea internally here because we sell direct outside the farm we do not have the machines that can help us to unpack the the tea but still yogurt we are doing it yes I mean for the the the milk we have around 92 daily cows that are lactating.

[00:42:59]>> So that's quite a good amount of milk.

[00:43:01]So we are able to reward we sell both the raw milk and also we do value addition whereby we make yogurts and our target customers are actually the Christians also and the people working in the farm also. So that has also generated quite a good amount of money to the farm and so by so doing the farm is able to stand by itself. you find the market is fronted with the same kind of uh product and so people do not like really to to know that this product is from her this one is from so and so and so with the fling of the market then we find there is what we call the demand is you know the demand is low the eco is is high but the demand is is low number two uh also out another challenge um that is uh uh we have encountered quite a number of diseases affecting our products here like if I give an example what happened last year we are densely affected with what we call the CBD coffee disease coffee berry disease which meant our production to actually go down with 50%.

[00:44:25]that it was uncontrollable.

[00:44:28]It was unstoppable. We tried all what we could but uh I think we were not able to uh to control it and by so doing our production was down. It went down for her farm being a private farm. We what we buy like factoriizers chemicals the prices is not subsidized for us. So we find ourselves you know getting into a trap buying those chemicals and fertilizers and herbicides at a very high price and by so doing our cost of production is also affected. So these are the key some of the challenges that we have >> and also when it is raining you know the the the being a farm our feeder rooms are very bad so sometimes to get the products from very far as I started by saying this land is over 3,000 acres so to get the products from very interior becomes very serious problems these are these are some of the challenges that we have encountered as a as a farm What I would request rather appeal to the government is to make consideration for a farm because you know what we do here we not only target the Catholics to come and work in this farm. In fact, we get people as far as from Islam because those are the people we feel the church is targeting to support. And so for the government, I would really to the government uh to chip to chip in and make sure that as they do to the other farmers, they also consider her farmers one of you know those farms that need support. So they sub they come inside and they subsidize the products sell to us exactly the way they sell to uh to the other farmers that will help us and boost us in a bigger way.

[00:46:40]>> Coffee I said is actually the crop that occupies quite a good number of acre range. uh dominating this crop number one and so what we do here we have a factory inside the hero farm. So after picking uh the coffee is taken to the factory for pumping and then the archbishop also introduced to the roster house. The roster house is also meant to uh roast the coffee and after roasting we ground the coffee and after grounding we back now ready for use. And uh this actually has also generated quite a good number a good amount amount of money to the houses. So and uh in terms of selling our coffee has attracted so many buyers both locally and internationally and so by doing the fish is able to sustain the farm by selling some of those products. For tea uh internally we do not we have not started valuing the tea but what we do after picking our tea we partner with the grai factory so they are our buyers so we do not pack our tea internally here because we sell direct outside the farm we do not have the machines that can help us to pack the the tea but still yogurt we are doing it Yes. I mean for the the the milk we have around 92 daily cows that are lactating.

[00:48:18]>> So that's quite a good amount of milk.

[00:48:21]So we are able to value we sell both the raw milk and also we do value addition whereby we make yogurt and our target customers are actually the Christians also and the people working in the farm also. So that has also generated quite a good uh amount of money to the farm and so by so doing the farm is able to stand by itself. You find the market is front ended with the same kind of uh product and so people do not like really to to know that this product is from her farm, this one is from so and so and so with the flinging of the market then you find there is what we call the demand is you know the demand is low the eco is is high but the demand is is low. Number two, uh we also encountered another challenge um that is uh uh we have encountered quite a number of diseases affecting our products here. Like if I give an example what happened last year, we are densely affected with what we call the CBD uh coffee disease, coffee berry disease which made our production to actually go down with the 50% that it was uncontrollable it was unstoppable we tried all what we could but uh I think we were not able to uh to control it and by so doing our production was down it went down for hill farm being a private farm we what we buy like fertilizers uh chemicals the prices is not subsidized for us so we find ourselves you getting into buying the those chemicals and fertilizers and herbicides at a very high price and by so doing our cost of production is also affected. So these are the key uh some of the challenges that we have and also when it is raining you know the the being a farm our feeder rooms are very bad. So sometimes to get the products from very far as I started by saying this land is over 3,000 acres. So to get the products from very interior becomes a very serious problem. These are some of the challenges that we have encountered as a as a farm. What I would request rather appeal to the government is to make consideration for the farm because you know what we do here. We do not only target the Catholics to come and work in this far. In fact, we get people as far as from Islam because those are the people we feel the church is targeting to support. And so for the government, I would bring to the government uh to chip to chip in and make sure that as they do to the other farmers, they also consider her farmer as one of you know those farms that need support. And so they sub like they come inside in subsidize the products sell to us exactly the way they sell to uh to the other farmers that will help us and boost us in a bigger way.

[00:51:59]coffee I said is actually the crop that occupies quite a good number of acre range is dominating is a crop crop number one and so what we do here we have a factory inside the hill farm so after picking uh the coffee is taken to the factory for pumping and then the archive also introduced the roster house the roster house is also meant to uh roast the coffee and after roasting We ground the coffee and after ground we pack now ready for use and this actually has also generated quite a good number a good amount uh amount of money to the houses. So and uh in terms of selling our coffee has attracted so many buyers both locally and internationally and so by zoning uh the fish is able to sustain the farm by selling some of those products for tea.

[00:53:01]Uh internally we do not we have not started valuing the tea but what we do after picking our tea we partner with the factory. So they are our buyers. So we do not pack our tea internally here because we sell direct outside the farm.

[00:53:20]We do not have the machines that can help us to pack the uh the tea but still yogurt we are doing it. Yes. I mean for the the milk we have around 92 daily cows that are lactating.

[00:53:38]So, so that's quite a good amount of milk. So, we are able to we sell both the raw milk and also we do addition whereby we make yogurt and our target customers are actually the Christians also and the people working in the farm also. So that has also generated quite a good amount of money to the farm. And so by so doing the farm is able to stand by itself. You find the market is fronted with the same kind of uh product. And so people do not like really to to know that this product is from her, this one is from so and so. And so with the flooding of the market then you find there is what we call the demand is you know the demand is low. the South Eco is is high but the demand is is low. Number two, uh we also encountered another challenge that is uh we have encountered quite a number of diseases affecting our products here.

[00:54:46]Like if I give an example what happened last year, we are densely affected with what we call the CBD of coffee disease, coffee berry disease which made our production to actually go down with 50%.

[00:55:05]That it was uncontrollable it was unstoppable. We tried all what we could but uh I think we were not able to uh to control it and by so doing our production was down. It went down for hill farm being a private farm. We what we buy like factoriizers chemicals the prices is not subsidized for us. So we find ourselves you know getting into a trap buying the those chemicals and fertilizers and herbicides at a very high price and by so doing our cost of production is also affected. And so these are the key uh some of the challenges that we have and also when it is raining you know the the being a farm our feeder rooms are very bad. So sometimes to get the products from very far as I started by saying this land is over 3,000 acres. So to get the products from very interior becomes very serious problems. These are some of the challenges that we have encountered as a as a farm. What I would request rather bill to the government is to make consideration for the farm because you know of what we do here. We do not only target the Catholics to come and work in this farm. In fact, we get people as far as from Islam because those are the people we feel the church is targeting to support. And so for the government, I would really to the government uh to chip to chip in and make sure that as they do to the other farmers, they also consider her farmers one of you know those farms that need support. And so they sub they come in and they subsidize the product sell to us exactly the way they sell to uh to the other farmers. that will help us ad boost users in a bigger way.

[00:57:19]>> For coffee I said is actually the crop that occupies quite a good number of acre range uh is dominating is crop number one. And so what what we do here we have a factory inside the hero farm.

[00:57:32]So after uh picking uh the coffee is taken to the factory for pulping and then uh the artish also introduced to the roster house. The roster house is also meant to uh roast the coffee and after roasting we ground the coffee and after grounding we back now ready for use and this actually has also generated quite a good number a good amount uh amount of money to build the houses. So and in terms of selling our coffee has attracted so many buyers both locally and internationally and so by doing uh the bishop is able to sustain the farm by selling some of those products for tea uh internally we do not we have not started valuing the tea but what we do after picking our tea we part with the factory. So they are our buyers. So we do not pack our tea internally here because we sell direct outside the farm.

[00:58:39]We do not have the machines that can help us to pack the the tea but still yogurt we are doing it. Yes. I mean for the the milk we have around 92 daily cows that are rotating.

[00:58:58]So that's quite a good amount of milk.

[00:59:00]So we are able to value we sell both the raw milk and also we do value addition whereby we make yogurt and our target customers are actually the Christians also and the people working in the farm also. So that has also generated quite a good amount of money to the farm. And so by so doing the farm is able to stand by itself. You find the market is fronted with the same kind of uh product. And so people do not like really to to know that this product is from her, this one is from so and so. And so with the flooding of the market then we find there is what we call the demand is you know the demand is low. the south eco is is high but the demand is is low. Number two, uh we also encountered another challenge that is uh we have encountered quite a number of diseases affecting our products here.

[01:00:06]Like if I give an example what happened last year, we are densely affected with what we call the CBD coffee disease, coffee berry disease which meant our production to actually go down with uh 50%.

[01:00:25]That it was uncontrollable it was unstoppable. We tried all what we could but uh I think we were not able to to control it and by so doing our production was down. It went down for hill farm being a private farm we what we buy like fizers chemicals the prices is not subsidized for us. So we find ourselves you know getting into buying those chemicals and fertilizers and herbicides at a very high price and by so doing our cost of production is also affected. So these are the key uh some of the challenges that we have and also when it is raining you know the the being a farm our feeder rooms are very bad. So sometimes to get the products from very far as I started by saying this land is over 3,000 acres.

[01:01:28]to get the products for the very interiors has very serious problems.

[01:01:32]These are some of the challenges that we have encountered as as a farm. What I would request for the appeal to the government is to make consideration for a farm because you know what we do here we do not only target the Catholics to come and work in Islam. In fact we get people as far as from the Islam because those are the people we feel the church is targeting to support. And so for the government, I would bring it to the government uh to chip to chip in and make sure that as they do to the other farmers, they also consider her farmers one of you know those farms that need support. And so they sub like they come in and subsidize the products, sell to us exactly the way they sell to uh to the other farmers. that will help us and boost us in a bigger way.

[01:02:39]>> Coffee I said is actually the crop that occupies quite a good number of ac.

[01:02:48]And so what we do here we have a factory inside the hero farm. So after picking uh the coffee is taken to the factory for pumping and then the artish have also introduced the roster house. The roster house is also meant to uh roast the coffee and after roasting we ground the coffee and after ground we back now ready for use and this actually has also generated quite a good number a good amount amount and money to the houses.

[01:03:20]So and in terms of selling our coffee has attracted so many buyers both locally and internationally and so by doing uh the fish is able to sustain the farm by selling some of those products for tea. uh internally we do not we have not started valuing the tea but what we do after picking our tea we partner now with the tea factory so they are our buyers so we do not pack our tea internally here because we sell direct outside the farm we do not have the machines that can help us to pack the the tea but still yogurt we are doing it yes I mean for the the the milk we have around 92 daily cows that are lactating.

[01:04:18]>> So that's quite a good amount of milk.

[01:04:20]So we are able to vary we sell both raw milk and also we do value addition whereby we make yogurt and our target customers are actually the Christians also and the people working in the farm also. So that has also generated quite a good uh amount of money to the farm and so by so doing the farm is able to stand by itself. you find the market is fronted with the same kind of uh product and so people do not like really to to know that this product is from here this one is from so and so and so in the fronting of the market then you find there is what we call the demand is you know the demand is low the supply is is high but the demand is is low number two also out another challenge um that is uh uh we have encountered quite a number of diseases affecting our products here like if I give an example what happened last year we are densely affected with what we call the CBD uh coffee disease uh coffee berry disease which meant our production to actually go down with uh 50%.

[01:05:44]that it was uncontrollable.

[01:05:47]It was unstoppable. We tried all what we could but uh I think we were not able to uh to control it and by so doing our production was down. It went down for hill farm being a private farm we what we buy like fertilizers chemicals the prices is not subsidized for us. So we find ourselves you know getting into a trap buying those chemicals and fertilizers and herbicides at a very high price and by so doing our cost of production is also affected. And so these are the key uh some of the challenges that we have and also when it is raining you know the the the bigger farm our feeder rooms are very bad. So sometimes to get the products from very far as I started by saying this land is over 3,000 acres. So to get the products from very interior becomes a very serious problems. Those are some of the challenges that we have encountered as a as a farm. What I would request rather appeal to the government is to make consideration for a farm because you know what we do here we not only target the Catholics to come and work in this farm. In fact we get people as far as from Islam because those are the people we feel the church is targeting to support. And so for the government, I would bring it to the government uh to chip to chip in and make sure that as they do to the other farmers, they also consider her farmers one of you know those farms that need support. And so they sub like they come in in and subsidize the product, sell to us exactly the way they sell to to the other farmers. That will help us at the boosters in a bigger way.

[01:07:58]>> Coffee I said is actually the crop that occupies quite a good number of acre range is dominating is crop number one.

[01:08:08]And so what what we do here we have a factory inside the hero farm. So after uh picking uh the coffee is taken to the factory for ping and then uh the archbishop also introduced to the roster house. The roster house is also meant to uh roast the coffee and after roasting we ground the coffee and after ground we pack now ready for use and this actually has also generated quite a good number a good amount amount of money to the houses. So and uh in terms of selling our coffee has attracted so many buyers both locally and internationally and so by doing uh the bishop is able to sustain the farm by selling some of those products for tea.

[01:09:01]uh internally we do not we have not started valuing the tea but what we do after picking our tea we part now with the tea factory so they are our buyers so we do not pack our tea internally here because we sell direct outside the farm we do not have the machines that can help us to pack the the tea but still yogurt we are doing it yes I mean for the the the milk we have around 92 daily cows that are actating.

[01:09:37]>> So that's quite a good amount of milk.

[01:09:40]So we are able to we sell both the raw milk and also we do value addition whereby we make yogurt and our target customers are actually the Christians also and the people working in the farm also. So that has also generated quite a good amount of money to the farm and so by so doing the farm is able to stand by itself. You find the market is fronted with the same kind of product and so people do not like really to to know that this product is from here from this one is from so and so and so with the flooding of the market then you find there is what we call the demand is you know the demand is low the eco is is high but the demand is is low. Number two, uh we also encountered another challenge um that is uh uh we have encountered quite a number of diseases affecting our products here. Like if I give an example what happened last year, we are densely affected with what we call the CBD of coffee disease coffee disease which meant our production to actually go down with uh 50% that it was uncontrollable it was unstoppable we tried all what we could but uh I think we were not able to control it and by so doing our production was down it went down for hill farm being a private farm we what we buy like fertilizers chemicals the prices is not subsidized for us and so we find ourselves you getting into to buying the those chemicals and fertilizers and herbicides at a very high price and by so doing our cost of production is also affected. And so these are the key some of the challenges that we have and also when it is raining you know the the being a farm our feeder rooms are very bad. So sometimes to get the products from very far as I started by saying this land is over 3,000 acres. So to get the products from very interior becomes a very serious problem. These are some of the challenges that we have encountered as a as a farm. What I would request rather bill to the government is to make consideration for the farm because you know what we do here. We do not only target the Catholics to come and work in this farm. In fact, we get people as far as from Islam because those are the people we feel the church is targeting to support. And so for the government, I would really to the government uh to chip to chip in and make sure that as they do to the other farmers, they also consider Hill farmers one of you know those farm farms need support. And so they sub like they come inside and they subsidize the products sell to us exactly the way they sell to to the other farmers that will help us and boost us in a bigger way.

[01:13:18]coffee I said is actually the crop that occupies quite a good number of acre range is dominating is the crop crop number one and so what we do here we have a factory inside the hill farm so after picking uh the coffee is taken to the factory for ping and then the bish have also introduced to the roster house the roster house is also meant to uh roast the coffee and after roasting We ground the coffee and after ground we back now ready for use and this actually has also generated quite a good number a good amount uh amount of money to the houses. So and uh in terms of selling our coffee has attracted so many buyers both locally and internationally and so by doing uh the bishop is able to sustain the farm by selling some of those products for tea.

[01:14:20]uh internally we do not we have not started while handing the tea but what we do after picking our tea we part now with the tea factory so they are our buyers so we do not pack our tea internally here because we sell direct outside the farm we do not have the machines that can help us to pack the the tea but still yogurt we are doing it yes I mean for the the the milk. We have around 92 daily cows that are creating.

[01:14:57]So that's quite a good amount of milk.

[01:15:00]So we are able to value we sell both the raw milk and also we do value addition whereby we make yogurt and our target customers are actually the Christians also and the people working in the farm also. So that has also generated quite a good amount of money to the farm and so by so doing the farm is able to stand by itself. You find the market is front end with the same kind of uh product and so people do not like really to to know that this product is from Hero, this one is from so and so and so with the flooding of the market then I find there is what we call the demand is you know the demand is low. The SARU is is high but the demand is is low. Number two, uh we also encountered another challenge that is uh we have encountered quite a number of diseases affecting our products here.

[01:16:05]Like if I give an example what happened last year, we are densely affected with what we call the CBD coffee disease, coffee berry disease which made our production to actually go down with 50%.

[01:16:24]That it was uncontrollable, it was unstoppable. We tried all what we could but uh I think we were not able to uh to control it and by so doing our production was down. It went down for hill farm being a private farm. We what we buy like fertilizers chemicals the prices is not subsidized for us. So we find ourselves you know getting into buying those chemicals and fertilizers and herbicides at a very high price and by so doing our cost of production is also affected. So these are the key uh some of the challenges that we have and also when it is raining you know the the being a farm our feeder rooms are very bad. So sometimes to get the products from very far as I started by saying this land is over 3,000 acres to get the products from very far as very serious problems.

[01:17:31]Some of the challenges that we have encountered as a as a farm water request rather to our government is to make consideration for a farm because you know of what we do here. We do not only target the Catholics to come and work in Islam. In fact, we get people as far as from Islam because those are the people we feel the church is targeting to support. And so for the government, I would bring it to the government uh to chip to chip in and make sure that as they do to the other farmers, they also consider her farmers one of you know those farm farms need support. So they sub they come inside and they subsidize the products sell to us exactly the way they sell to uh to the other farmers that will help us and boost us in a bigger way.

[01:18:38]>> Coffee I said is actually the crop that occupies quite a good number of acre range. uh is dominating is crop number one and so what we do here we have a factory inside the hero farm. So after picking uh the coffee is taken to the factory for ping and then the bish have also introduced the roster house. The roster house is also meant to uh roast the coffee and after roasting we ground the coffee and after grounding we back now ready for use. And uh this actually has also generated quite a good number a good amount uh amount of money to the houses. So and uh in terms of selling our coffee has attracted so many buyers both locally and internationally and so by zoning the bishop is able to sustain the farm by selling some of those products. for tea. Uh internally we do not we have not started valuing the tea but what we do after picking our tea we partner with the tea factory. So they are our buyers.

[01:19:52]So we do not pack our tea internally here because we sell direct outside the farm. We do not have the machines that can help us to pack the the tea but still yogurt we are doing it. Yes. I mean for the the the milk we have around 92 daily cows that are lactating.

[01:20:17]>> So that's quite a good amount of milk.

[01:20:19]So we are able to value. We sell both the raw milk and also we do value addition whereby we make yogurt and our target customers are actually the Christians also and the people working in the farm also. So that has also generated quite a good amount of money to the farm and so by so doing the farm is able to stand by itself. You find the market is fronted with the same kind of uh product and so people do not like really to to know that this product is from her, this one is from so and so.

[01:21:01]And so with the flinging of the market then we find there is what we call the demand is you know the demand is low the eco is is high but the demand is is low.

[01:21:12]Number two also out another challenge that is uh we have encountered quite a number of diseases affecting our products here.

[01:21:25]Like if I give an example what happened last year, we are densely affected with what we call the CBD uh coffee disease uh coffee berry disease which meant our production actually go down with uh 50%.

[01:21:44]That it was uncontrollable it was unstoppable. We tried all what we could but uh I think we were not able to to control it and by so doing our production was down. It went down for her farm being a private farm. We what we buy like fertilizers chemicals the prices is not subsidized for us. So we find ourselves you know getting into buying those chemicals and fertilizers and herbicides at a very high price and by so doing our cost of production is also affected. And so these are the key some of the challenges that we have and also when it is raining you know the the being a farm our feeder rooms are very bad. So sometimes to get the products from very far as I started by saying this land is over 3,000 acres.

[01:22:46]to get the products from very far and very serious problems. These are some of the challenges that we have encountered as a as a farm. What I would request the appeal to the government is to make consideration for a farm because you know what we do here we do not only target the Catholics to come and work in Islam. In fact, we get people as far as from Islam because those are the people we feel the church is targeting to support. And so for the government, I would bring it to the government uh to chip to chip in and make sure that as they do to the other farmers, they also consider her farmers one of you know those farms need support. And so they sub they come in and subsidize the product sell to us exactly the way they sell to uh to the other farmers that will help us and boost us in a bigger way.

[01:23:58]coffee I said is actually the crop that occupies quite a good number of acre range dominating is a crop crop number one and so what we do here we have a factory inside the hero farm so after picking uh the coffee is taken to the factory for pumping and then the archbishop also introduced the roster house the roster house is also meant to uh roast the coffee and after roasting We ground the coffee and after ground we pack now ready for use and this actually has also generated quite a good number a good amount uh amount of money to the houses. So and uh in terms of selling our coffee has attracted so many buyers both locally and internationally and so by zoning uh the archishop is able to sustain the farm by selling some of those products for tea.

[01:25:00]Uh internally we do not we have not started valuing the tea but what we do after picking our tea we partner with the tea factory. So they are our buyers.

[01:25:12]So we do not pack our tea internally here because we sell direct outside the farm. We do not have the machines that can help us to pack the uh the tea but still yogurt we are doing it. Yes. I mean for the the milk we have around 92 daily cows that are lactating.

[01:25:36]So, so that's quite a good amount of milk. So, we are able to we sell both the raw milk and also we do varation whereby we make yogurt and our target customers are actually the Christians also and the people working in the farm also. So that has also generated quite a good amount of money to the farm. And so by so doing the farm is able to stand by itself. You find the market is front end with the same kind of uh product. And so people do not like really to to know that this product is from her, this one is from so and so. And so with the fronting of the market then you find there is what we call the demand is you know the demand is low. the south eco is is high but the demand is is low. Number two, uh we also encountered another challenge that is uh we have encountered quite a number of diseases affecting our products here.

[01:26:45]Like if I give an example what happened last year, we are densely affected with what we call the CBD uh coffee disease uh coffee berry disease which made our production to actually go down with uh 50%.

[01:27:04]That it was uncontrollable it was unstoppable. We tried all what we could but uh I think we were not able to uh to control it and by so our production was down. It went down for hill farm being a private farm. We what we buy like factoriizers chemicals the prices is not subsidized for us. So we find ourselves you know getting into a trap buying those chemicals and fertilizers and herbicides at a very high price and by so doing our cost of production is also affected. And so these are the key uh some of the challenges that we have and also when it is uh raining you know the the being a farm our feeder rooms are very bad. So sometimes to get the products from very far as I started by saying this land is over 3,000 acres. So to get the products from very interior becomes a very serious problem. These are some of the challenges that we have encountered as a as a farm. What I would request rather appeal to the government is to make consideration for the farm because you know what we do here. We do not only target the Catholics to come and work in this farm. In fact, we get people as far as from Islam because those are the people we feel the church is targeting to support. And so for the government, I would really to the government uh to chip to chip in and make sure that as they do to the other farmers, they also consider her farmers one of you know those farms that need support. And so they sub they come inside and they subsidize the products sell to us exactly the way they sell to uh to the other farmers that will help us and boost us in a bigger way.

[01:29:17]coffee I said is actually the crop that occupies quite a good number of acreage dominating is crop number one and so what we do here we have a factory inside the hero farm so after picking uh the coffee is taken to the factory for ping and then the bish have also introduced the roster house the roster house is also meant to uh roast the coffee and after roasting We ground the coffee and after ground we back now ready for use and this actually has also generated quite a good number a good amount uh amount of money to the houses. So and in terms of selling our coffee has attracted so many buyers both the locally and internationally and so by doing uh the bishop is able to sustain the farm by selling some of those products for tea. uh internally we do not we have not started while you adding the tea but what we do after picking our tea we now factory so they are our buyers so we do not pack our tea internally here because we sell direct outside the farm we do not have the machines that can help us to pack the the tea but still yogurt we are doing it yes I mean for the the the milk we have around 92 daily cows that are lactating.

[01:30:56]>> So that's quite a good amount of milk.

[01:30:59]So we are able to value we sell both the raw milk and also we do value addition whereby we make yogurt and our target customers are actually the Christians also and the people working in the farm also. So that has also generated quite a good amount of money to the farm and so by so doing the farm is able to stand by itself. You find the market is fronted with the same kind of uh product and so people do not like really to to know that this product is from her, this one is from so and so. And so with the fling of the market then you find that there is what we call the demand is you know the demand is low the supply is is high but the demand is is low. Number two uh we've also encountered another challenge that is uh we have encountered quite a number of diseases affecting our products here.

[01:32:04]Like if I give an example what happened last year, we are densely affected with what we call the CBD coffee disease, coffee berry disease which meant our production to actually go down with 50%.

[01:32:23]That it was uncontrollable, it was unstoppable. We tried all what we could but uh I think we were not able to to control it and by so doing our production was down. It went down for hill farm being a private farm. We what we buy like factoriizers chemicals the prices is not subsidized for us. So we find ourselves you know getting into buying those chemicals and fertilizers and at a very high price and by so doing our cost of production is also affected.

[01:33:04]So these are the key some of the challenges that we have and also when it is uh raining you know the the being a farm our feeder rooms are very bad. So sometimes to get the products from very far as I started by saying this land is over 3,000 acres to get the products from very becomes very serious problems.

[01:33:30]Those are some of the challenges that we have encountered as a as a farm. What I would request that appeal to the government is to make consideration for the farm because you know what we do here. We not only target the Catholics to come and work in this farm. In fact, we get people as far as from Islam because those are the people we feel the church is targeting to support. And so for the government, I would bring it to the government uh to chip to chip in and make sure that as they do to the other farmers, they also consider her farmers one of you know those farms that need support. And so they sub they come in and subsidize the product, sell it to us exactly the way they sell it to uh to the other farmers. that will help us and boost us in a bigger way.

[01:34:37]>> Coffee I said is actually the crop that occupies quite a good number of acre range is dominating as a crop number one and so what we do here we have a factory inside the hero farm. So after picking uh the coffee is taken to the factory for pumping and then uh the bish have also introduced the roster house. The roster house is also meant to uh roast the coffee and after roasting we ground the coffee and after grounding we back now ready for use and this actually has also generated quite a good number a good amount uh amount and money to the houses. So and in terms of selling our coffee has attracted so many buyers both locally and internationally and so by zoning uh the bishop is able to sustain the farm by selling some of those products for tea.

[01:35:39]Uh internally we do not we have not started valuing the tea but what we do after picking our tea we now factory so they are our buyers so we do not pack our tea internally here because we sell direct outside the farm we do not have the machines that can help us to pack the the tea but still yogurt we are doing it yes I mean For the the the milk we have around 92 daily cows that are lactating.

[01:36:16]>> So that's quite a good amount of milk.

[01:36:19]So we are able to vary. We sell both the raw milk and also we do varation whereby we make yogurts and our target customers are actually the Christians also and the people working in the farm also. So that has also generated quite a good amount of money to the farm and so by so doing the farm is able to stand by itself. you find the market is fronted with the same kind of uh product and so people do not like really to to know that this product is from here and this one is from so and so and so with the fling of the market then we find there is what we call the demand is you know the demand is low the supply is is high but the demand is is low number two also out another challenge um that is uh uh we have encountered quite a number of diseases affecting our products here like if I give an example what happened last year we are densely affected with what we call the CBD uh coffee disease uh coffee berry disease which meant our production to actually go down with uh 50%.

[01:37:43]that it was uncontrollable.

[01:37:46]It was unstoppable. We tried all what we could but uh I think we were not able to uh to control it and by so doing our production was down. It went down for her farm being a private farm. We what we buy like fertilizers chemicals the prices is not subsidized for us. So we find ourselves you know getting into buying those chemicals and fertilizers and herbicides at a very high price and by so doing our cost of production is also affected. And so these are the key uh some of the challenges that we have and also when it is raining you know the the being a farm our feeder are very bad. So sometimes to get the products from very far as I started by saying this land is over 3,000 acres. So to get the products from very indeed becomes some very serious problems. Another some of the challenges that we have encountered as a as a farm. What I would request rather to the government is to make consideration for the farm because you know of what we do here. We not only target the Catholics to come and work in this farm. In fact, we get people as far as from the slams because those are the people we feel the church is targeting to support. And so for the government, I would bring it to the government uh to chip to chip in and make sure that as they do to the other farmers, they also consider her farmers one of you know those farms that need support. And so they sub they come in in and subsidize the products, sell it to us exactly the way they sell to uh to the other farmers. that will help us at the boosters in a bigger way.

[01:39:57]>> Coffee I said is actually the crop that occupies quite a good number of acre range dominating is crop number one and so what we do here we have a factory inside the hero farm. So after uh picking uh the coffee is taken to the factory for ping and then uh the archbishop also introduced the roster house. The roster house is also meant to uh roast the coffee and after roasting we ground the coffee and after ground we pack now ready for use and this actually has also generated quite a good number a good amount amount of money to the houses. So and uh in terms of selling our coffee has attracted so many buyers both locally and internationally and so by doing uh the bishop is able to sustain the farm by selling some of those products for tea.

[01:40:59]uh internally we do not we have not started valuing the tea but what we do after picking our tea we part now with the tea factory so they are our buyers so we do not pack our tea internally here because we sell direct outside the farm we do not have the machines that can help us to pack the the tea but still yogurt we are doing it yes I mean for the the the milk we have around 92 daily cows that are lactating.

[01:41:36]>> So that's quite a good amount of milk.

[01:41:38]So we are able to value we sell both the raw milk and also we do value addition whereby we make yogurt and our target customers are actually the Christians also and the people working in the farm also. So that has also generated quite a good amount of money to the farm and so by so doing the farm is able to stand by itself. you find the market is front end with the same kind of uh product and so people do not like really to to know that this product is from her this one is from so and so and so with the flooding of the market then you find there is what we call uh the demand is you know the demand is low the supply is is high but the demand is is low. Number two, uh we also encountered another challenge um that is uh uh we have encountered quite a number of diseases affecting our products here. Like if I give an example what happened last year, we are densely affected with what we call the CBD of coffee disease berry disease which meant our production to actually go down with 50%.

[01:43:03]That it was uncontrollable it was unstoppable. We tried all what we could but uh I think we were not able to control it and by so doing our production was down. It went down for hill farm being a private farm we what we buy like fertilizers chemicals the prices is not subsidized for us. So we find ourselves you know getting into buying those chemicals and fertilizers and herbicides at a very high price and by solding our cost of production is also affected. And so these are the key some of the challenges that we have and also when it is raining you know the the being a farm our feeder rooms are very bad. So sometimes to get the products from very far as I started by saying this land is over 3,000 acres.

[01:44:05]So to get the products from very interior becomes a very serious problem.

[01:44:10]Those are some of the challenges that we have encountered as a as a farm water on the request that appeal to the government is to make consideration for the farm because you know what we do here. We do not only target the Catholics to come and work in this far.

[01:44:29]In fact, we get people as far as from Islam because these are the people we feel the church is targeting to support.

[01:44:36]And so for the government, I would really to the government uh to chip to chip in and make sure that as they do to the other farmers, they also consider Hill farmers one of you know those farms that need support. And so they sub like they come inside and they subsidize the products sell to us exactly the way they they sell to uh to the other farmers that will help us and boost us in a bigger way.

[01:45:17]coffee I said is actually the crop that occupies quite a good number of acreage is dominating crop number one and so what we do here we have a factory inside the hero farm so after picking uh the coffee is taken to the factory for ping and then the archbishop also introduced the roster house the roster house is also meant to uh roast the coffee and after roasting We ground the coffee and after grounding we back now ready for use and this actually has also generated quite a good number a good amount uh amount of money to the houses. So and in terms of selling our coffee has attracted so many buyers both locally and internationally and so by doing uh the archbishop is able to sustain the farm by selling some of those products for tea. uh internally we do not we have not started valuing the tea but what we do after picking our tea we now factory so they are our buyers so we do not pack our tea internally here because we sell direct outside the farm we do not have the machines that can help us to pack the the tea but still yogurt we are doing it yes I mean for the the the milk. We have around 92 daily cows that are lactating.

[01:46:56]>> So that's quite a good amount of milk.

[01:46:58]So we are able to validation whereby we make yogurt and our target customers are actually the Christians also and the people working in the farm also. So that has also generated quite a good amount of money to the farm and so by so doing the farm is able to stand by itself. You find the market is fronted with the same kind of uh product and so people do not like really to to know that this product is from Hero, this one is from so and so. And so with the flooding of the market then you find there is what we call the demand is you know the demand is low the eco is is high but the demand is is low. Number two uh we also encountered another challenge that is uh we have encountered quite a number of diseases affecting our products here.

[01:48:04]Like if I give an example what happened last year, we are densely affected with what we call the CBD coffee disease, coffee berry disease which meant our production to actually go down with 50%.

[01:48:23]That it was uncontrollable, it was unstoppable. We tried all what we could but uh I think we were not able to uh to control it and by so doing our production was down. It went down for hill farm being a private farm. We what we buy like fizers chemicals the prices is not subsidized for us. So we find ourselves you know getting into buying those chemicals and fertilizers and herbicides at a very high price and by so doing our cost of production is also affected. And so these are the key some of the challenges that we have and also when it is raining you know the the being a farm our feeder are very bad. So sometimes to get the products from very far as I started by saying this land is over 3,000 acres to get the products for very becomes a very serious problem. Those are some of the challenges that we have encountered as a as a farm. What are we request to the government is to make consideration for the farm because you know what we do here. We do not only target the Catholics to come and work in this farm. In fact, we get people as far as from the slums because those are the people we feel the church is targeting to support. And so for the government, I would bring it to the government uh to chip to chip in and make sure that as they do to the other farmers, they also consider her farmers one of you know those farms that need support. And so they sub they come in and subsidize the products sell to us exactly the way they sell to to the other farmers. that will help us and boost us in a bigger way.

[01:50:36]>> Coffee I said is actually the crop that occupies quite a good number of acre range is crop number one and so what we do here we have a factory inside the hill farm. So after picking uh the coffee is taken to the factory for powing and then uh the archbishop also introduced to the roster house. The roster house is also meant to uh roast the coffee and after roasting we ground the coffee and after ground we back now ready for use and this actually has also generated quite a good number a good amount amount of money to the houses. So and uh in terms of selling our coffee has attracted so many buyers both locally and internationally and so by zoning uh the bishop is able to sustain the farm by selling some of those products for tea.

[01:51:38]Uh internally we do not we have not started while handing the tea but what we do after picking our tea we partner with the the tea factory. So they are our buyers. So we do not pack our tea internally here because we sell direct outside the farm. We do not have the machines that can help us to pack the uh the tea but still yogurt we are doing it. Yes. I mean for the the milk we have around 92 daily cows that are rotating.

[01:52:15]So, so that's quite a good amount of milk. So, we are able to we sell both the raw milk and also we do value addition whereby we make yogurt and our target customers are actually the Christians also and the people working in the farm also. So that has also generated quite a good amount of money to the farm. And so by so doing the farm is able to stand by itself. You find the market is fronted in the same kind of uh product. And so people do not like really to to know that this product is from this one is from so and so and so with the flooding of the market then you find there is what we call the demand is you know the demand is low. the South Eco is is high but the demand is is low.

[01:53:11]Number two, uh we also encountered another challenge that is uh we have encountered quite a number of diseases affecting our products here.

[01:53:24]Like if I give an example what happened last year, we are densely affected with what we call the CBD of coffee disease coffee disease which made our production to actually go down with 50%.

[01:53:42]that it was uncontrollable, it was unstoppable. We tried all what we could but uh I think we were not able to uh to control it and by so doing our production was down. It went down for hill farm being a private farm we what we buy like fertilizers chemicals the prices is not subsidized for us. So we find ourselves you know getting into a trap buying the those chemicals and fertilizers and herbicides at a very high price and by so doing our cost of production is also affected. And so these are the key some of the challenges that we have and also when it is raining you know the the being a farm our feeder rooms are very bad. So sometimes to get the products from very far as I started by saying this land is over 3,000 acres. So to get the products from very interior becomes a very serious problem. These are some of the challenges that we have encountered as a as a farm. What I would request rather bill to the government is to make consideration for the farm because you know of what we do here. We do not only target the Catholics to come and work in this far. In fact, we get people as far as from the slums because those are the people we feel the church is targeting to support. And so for the government, I would bring it to the government uh to chip to chip in and make sure that as they do to the other farmers, they also consider Hill farmers one of you know those farm farms need support. And so they sub they come inside in and they subsidize the products sell to us exactly the way they they sell to uh to the other farmers that will help us and boost us in a bigger way.

[01:55:56]>> Coffee I said is actually the crop that occupies quite a good number of acre range. uh is dominating crop number one and so what we do here we have a factory inside the hero farm.

[01:56:10]So after picking uh the coffee is taken to the factory for pumping and then the arch have also introduced the roster house. The roster house is also meant to uh roast the coffee and after roasting we ground the coffee and after ground we pack now ready for use. And uh this actually has also generated quite a good number a good amount uh amount of money to the diosis. So and in terms of selling our coffee has attracted so many buyers both locally and internationally and so by doing the bishop is able to sustain the farm by selling some of those products. For tea uh internally we do not we have not started valuing the tea but what we do after picking our tea we partner with the tea factory so they are our buyers so we do not pack our tea internally here because we sell direct outside the farm we do not have the machines that can help us to pack the the tea but still yogurt we are doing it Yes. I mean for the the the milk we have around 92 daily cows that are lactating.

[01:57:35]>> So that's quite a good amount of milk.

[01:57:38]So we are able to we sell both the raw milk and also we do value whereby we make yogurt and our target the customers are actually the Christians also and the people working in the farm also. So that has also generated quite a good amount of money to the farm and so by so doing the farm is able to stand by itself. you find the market is front ended with the same kind of uh product and so people do not like really to to know that this product is from here this one is from so and so and so with the fling of the market then we find there is what we call the demand is you know the demand is low the eco is is high but the demand is is low number two also another challenge um that is uh uh we have encountered quite a number of diseases affecting our products here like if I give an example what happened last year we are densely affected with what we call the CBD coffee disease coffee berry disease which meant our production to actually go down with uh 50%.

[01:59:02]that it was uncontrollable.

[01:59:05]It was unstoppable. We tried all what we could but uh I think we were not able to uh to control it and by so doing our production was down. It went down for her farm being our coffee has attracted so many buyers both locally and international sustain the farm by selling some of those products. For tea uh internally we do not we have not started valuing the tea but what we do after picking our tea we part now with the tea factory so they are our buyers so we do not pack our tea internally here because we sell direct outside the farm we do not have the machines that can help us to pack the the tea but still yogurt we are doing it Yes. I mean for the the the milk we have around 92 daily cows that are lactating.

[02:00:07]>> So that's quite a good amount of milk.

[02:00:09]So we are able to we sell both the raw milk and also we do value addition whereby we make yogurt and our target customers are actually the Christians also and the people working in the farm also. So that has also generated quite a good amount of money to the farm and so by so doing the farm is able to stand by itself. you find the market is front ended with the same kind of uh product and so people do not like really to to know that this product is from her this one is from so and so and so with the fling of the market then you find there is what we call the demand is you know the demand is low the eco is is high but the demand is is low number two uh also out another challenge um that is uh uh we have encountered quite a number of diseases affecting our products here like if I give an example what happened last year we are densely affected with what we call the CBD coffee disease coffee berry disease which meant our production to actually go down with 50%.

[02:01:34]that it was uncontrollable.

[02:01:36]It was unstoppable. We tried all what we could but uh I think we were not able to uh to control it and by so doing our production was down. It went down for her farm being a private farm we what we buy like fertilizers chemicals the prices is not subsidized for us. So we find ourselves you know getting into a trap buying the those chemicals and fertilizers and herbicides at a very high price and by so on our cost of production is also affected. So these are the key uh some of the challenges that we have and also when it is uh raining you know the the being a farm our feeder rooms are very bad. So sometimes to get the products from very far as I started by saying this land is over 3,000 acres. So to get the products from very interior becomes a very serious problems. These are some of the challenges that we have encountered as a as a farm. What I would request rather appeal to the government is to make consideration for the farm because you know what we do here. We do not only target the Catholics to come and work in this farm. In fact, we get people as far as from Islam because those are the people we feel the church is targeting to support. And so for the government, I would bring it to the government uh to chip to chip in and make sure that as they do to the other farmers, they also consider her farmers one of you know those farms that need support. And so they sub they come inside in subsidize the products sell to us exactly the way they sell to uh to the other farmers that will help us and boost us in a bigger way.

[02:03:48]>> Coffee I said is actually the crop that occupies quite a good number of acreage.

[02:03:53]uh is nominating as crop number one and so what we do here we have a factory inside the hero farm. So after picking uh the coffee is taken to the factory for pumping and then the archbishop also introduced the roster house. The roster house is also meant to uh roast the coffee and after roasting we ground the coffee and after grounding we pack now ready for use. And uh this actually has also generated quite a good number a good amount amount of money to the houses. So and uh in terms of selling our coffee has attracted so many buyers both the locally and internationally and so by doing the bishop is able to sustain the farm by selling some of those products. For tea uh internally we do not we have not started valuing the tea but what we do after picking our tea we partner with the tea factory so they are our buyers so we do not pack our tea internally here because we sell direct outside the farm we do not have the machines that can help us to pack the the tea but still yogurt we are doing it Yes. I mean for the the the milk we have around 92 daily cows that are lactating.

[02:05:27]>> So that's quite a good amount of milk.

[02:05:29]So we are able to we sell both the raw milk and also we do valuation whereby we make yogurt and our target customers are actually the Christians also and the people working in the farm also. So that has also generated quite a good amount of money to the farm and so by so doing the farm is able to stand by itself. You find the market is front ended with the same kind of uh product and so people do not like really to to know that this product is from here and this one is from so and so and so with the fronting of the market then you find there is what we call the demand is you know the demand is low the eco is is high but the demand is is low. Number two, uh we also encountered another challenge um that is uh uh we have encountered quite a number of diseases affecting our products here. Like if I give an example what happened last year, we are densely affected with what we call the CBD coffee disease, coffee berry disease which meant our production to actually go down with 50% that it was uncontrollable it was unstoppable we tried all what we could but uh I think we were not able to uh to control it and by so doing our production was down it went down for her farm being a private farm we what we buy like factoriizers chemicals the prices is not subsidized for us so we find ourselves you getting to buying the those chemicals and fertilizers and harvest at a very high price and by so doing our cost of production is also affected. And so these are the key uh some of the challenges that we have and also when it is raining you know the the being a farm our feeder rooms are very bad. So sometimes to get the products from very far as I started by saying this land is over 3,000 acres. So to get the products from very interior becomes a very serious problems. These are some of the challenges that we have encountered as a as a farm. What I would request rather bill to the government is to make consideration for the farm because you know what we do here. We not only target the Catholics to come and work in this farm. In fact, we get people as far as from Islam because those are the people we feel the church is targeting to support. And so for the government, I would bring it to the government uh to chip to chip in and make sure that as they do to the other farmers, they also consider her farmers one of you know those farms that need support. And so they sub they come in in subsidize the products, sell to us exactly the way they sell to to the other farmers. That will help us at the boosters in a bigger way.

[02:09:07]>> For coffee I said is actually the crop that occupies quite a good number of acrop crop number one. And so what what we do here we have a factory inside the hero farm. So after picking uh the coffee is taken to the factory for pumping and then the bish have also introduced the roster house. The roster house is also meant to uh roast the coffee and after roasting we ground the coffee and after grounding we pack now ready for use and this actually has also generated quite a good number a good amount uh amount and money to the houses. So and in terms of selling our coffee has attracted so many buyers both locally and internationally and so by doing the bishop is able to sustain the farm by selling some of those products for tea. uh internally we do not we have not started valuing the tea but what we do after picking our tea we partner with the tea factory so they are our buyers so we do not pack our tea internally here because we sell direct outside the farm we do not have the machines that can help us to pack the the tea but still yogurt we are doing it yes I mean for the the the milk we have around 92 daily cows that are lactating.

[02:10:46]>> So that's quite a good amount of milk.

[02:10:49]So we are able to value we sell both the raw milk and also we do value addition whereby we make yogurt and our target customers are actually the Christians also and the people working in the farm also. So that has also generated quite a good uh amount of money to the farm and so by so doing the farm is able to stand by itself. you find the market is flooded with the same kind of uh product and so people do not like really to to know that this product is from here and this one is from so and so and so with the fling of the market then you find there is what we call the demand is you know the demand is low the supply is is high but the demand is is low. Number two, uh we also encountered another challenge um that is uh uh we have encountered quite a number of diseases affecting our products here. Like if I give an example what happened last year, we are densely affected with what we call the CBD uh coffee disease uh coffee berry disease which meant our production to actually go down with uh 50%.

[02:12:13]That it was uncontrollable it was unstoppable. We tried all what we could but uh I think we were not able to to control it and by so doing our production was down. It went down for hill farm being a private farm. We what we buy like fertilizers chemicals the prices is not subsidized for us. So we find ourselves you know getting into buying those chemicals and fertilizers and herbicides at a very high price and by so doing our cost of production is also affected. And so these are the key uh some of the challenges that we have and also when it is raining you know the the being a farm our feeder wounds are very bad. So sometimes to get the products from very far as I started by saying this land is over 3,000 acres.

[02:13:16]So to get the products from very interior becomes a very serious problem.

[02:13:20]These are some of the challenges that we have encountered as as a farm. What I would request the appeal to the government is to make consideration for a farm because you know what we do here.

[02:13:34]We do not only target the Catholics to come and work in this farm. In fact, we get people as far as from Islam because those are the people we feel the church is targeting to support. And so for the government, I would really to the government uh to chip to chip in and make sure that as they do to the other farmers, they also consider her farmers one of you know those farms that need support. And so they sub they come inside and they subsidize the products sell to us exactly the way they they sell to uh to the other farmers that will help us and boost us in a bigger way.

[02:14:27]coffee I said is actually the crop that occupies quite a good number of acreage is dominating is crop number one and so what we do here we have a factory inside the hero farm so after picking uh the coffee is taken to the factory for ping and then the bishop also introduced the roster house the roster house is also meant to uh roast the coffee and after roasting We ground the coffee and after ground we back now ready for use and this actually has also generated quite a good number a good amount uh amount of money to the houses. So and uh in terms of selling our coffee has attracted so many buyers both locally and internationally and so by zoning uh the bishop is able to sustain the farm by selling some of those products for tea.

[02:15:29]Uh internally we do not we have not started when you adding the tea but what we do after picking our tea we partner with the factory. So they are our buyers. So we do not pack our tea internally here because we sell direct outside the farm.

[02:15:48]We do not have the machines that can help us to pack the uh the tea but still yogurt we are doing it. Yes. I mean for the the milk we have around 92 daily cows that are lactating.

[02:16:06]So that's quite a good amount of milk.

[02:16:08]So we are able to value we sell both the raw milk and also we do valuation whereby we make yogurt and our target customers are actually the Christians also and the people working in the farm also. So that has also generated quite a good amount of money to the farm. And so by so doing the farm is able to stand by itself. You find the market is fronted with the same kind of uh product. And so people do not like really to to know that this product is from her farm, this one is from so and so. And so with the flinging of the market then you find there is what we call the demand is you know the demand is low. the South Eco is is high but the demand is is low. Number two, uh we also encountered another challenge that is uh we have encountered quite a number of diseases affecting our products here.

[02:17:14]Like if I give an example what happened last year, we are densely affected with what we call the CBD of coffee disease, coffee, coffee berry disease which made our production to actually go down