Simple value addition machines every small scale farmer needs

Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology senior Technologist Simon Gatagia with motorised sorghum thrasher at the Juja workshop. [Jenipher Wachie, Standard]

Simon Gatagia feeds a handful of dry maize stalks in a large bowl on the rear end of a grinding machine.

He intends to use the ground maize stalks as the base material for a 70kg bag of dairy feeds he plans to make. He will also grind soya beans, dry steamed bones and dry omena separately and mix all these in the base material in the machine to make animal feeds.