French Beans Value Chain Development; Muranga County

County Government
1. Establishment of model Global gap infrastructure in Kieni Gathugu and Kimakia Ngaragu Irrigation Water Projects
These infrastructures include Grading Shade, Chemical store, Toilet, Bathroom, Fertilizer store among others. They are complete except the Charcoal cooler whose walls are yet to be filled with charcoal. Each of the implementing groups has a set of the structures.
2. Quality management Systems (QMS)
• A Consultant was engaged to spearhead rolling out and implementation of QMS. In addition, required sets of record were designed. Personnel who ensured the records are correct and updated were in place and trainings carried out as required. Keys areas that were trained included First Aid training by Kenya Red Cross, Safe use of pesticides and well as farm produce handling.
• Several analyses carried out in Accredited Laboratories and several recommendations received. Among include Soil, irrigation and drinking water analysis, manure and Chemical residue screening.

3. Harvesting and marketing.
The county produces about 30MT per week translating to 1560 MT annually generating about KES 100m for the County farmers. This is about 40% the County potential.

4. Global GAP Certification
This activity was conducted Oct 2014 in the 2 groups and our plan was to have all county producers certified to enhance access to international market.

5. French beans Input Program support
The County Government has invested over KES 69 m in the project of which about 20% is in seeds, fertilizers and Pesticides and the rest in enhancing marketing.

6. Establishment of Global gap infrastructure
These infrastructures include Grading Shade, Chemical store, Toilet, Bathroom, Fertilizer store among others. They are complete except the Charcoal cooler whose walls are yet to be filled with charcoal. Each of the implementing groups has a set of the following structures constructed by the County Government.