Total 20 hectares and 14.5 hectares is planted in greenhouse.
SALE ONO KES 450M
50 Acre protected environment floriculture project, growing and exporting Cut Flowers (Roses) to European Market. The farm is located in Kajiado District, approximately 52 km from Kenya’s capital city, Nairobi. It is at the heart of Kenya’s agricultural based province, where a combination of fertile soils, high altitude 1750 m and nearly perfect climate have conspired to provide the ideal environment for growing of cut flowers.
State of the art project facilities ensure that the cut flowers grown here confirm to international standard of quality.
These include:
1. Poly Green Houses: for year round microclimate creation;
2. Computerized Drip Irrigation System: to ensure optimal feeding of water and fertilizers;
3. Post Harvest Management: sophisticated precooling and cold storage facilities
Ensure quality, freshness and vase-life.
4. Packing and grading facility: an air conditioned facility with one of the
Strictest quality management programmes; sort, grades and pack only the best flowers to satisfy the buyers the world over.
5. Pest and Disease Control: an integrated pest and diseases control programmed is
Observed to control the pests and diseases effectively, by using biological origin
Pesticides, Effective Microorganism solutions (EM) and farmyard manure.
6. Reverse Osmosis Plant; for a capacity of 40 m3 per hour
The farm offers buyers the world over a selection of varieties of roses, Marie Clair, Mariyo, Furiosa, Red Ribbon, Bellerose, Athena, Double date and New Orleans.
Cold chain refrigerated storage; transport facilities and a location one hour from the International Airport at Nairobi ensure the freshest produce reaches the buyer soonest, any where in the world.
The farm is working closely with MPS and Kenya Flower Council and is deeply concerned about workers welfare and environmental friendly growing techniques including the plantation of trees.
Market - The entire farm and varieties are planted keeping both the market destinations in mind... flower auction in Holland and many direct buyers across the globe.. we mostly sell around half of our produce on two locations of Dutch Flower Auctions... VBA and Naaldwijk
We have two private unpackers in Holland who receives our flowers ,unpack them to present them on auction clock... they are Global Flower Service and Flower Optimal Connection.
We ship all produce through Panalpina Airflo at JKIA as our clearing and forwarding agent. About the direct buyers we ship to Moscow,Norway,United Kingdom,Holland,Switzerland Middle East and Cyprus.
We have weekly and Year round standing orders deals with the buyers on yearly basis on fixed fob prices in euros. The main buyers are ZNS Laxhmi group, Dutch Flower Group,Agrotopic,IPL, Farm Fresh,Sliekweid,Rosapark,Fatim Flowers,Milele Flower, Ultraflo Ltd, JZ Flowers,Uniflora, Tripple F Flower,Greendeal and IBH The market is occasion oriented as Christmas Valentine’s Day , Easter and Mother’s Day are main peak time so production is planned in the greenhouses to maximize the yield at these occasions while we export normal year round 365 days.
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