Boon for farmers as brewer to source raw material locally

Kenya Breweries Limited Managing Director Jane Karuku(left) explains how an effluent treatment plant works to Nic Hailey, the British High Commissioner to Kenya (right), during a tour of the KBL Kisumu Brewery on March 27, 2018. The Sh15 billion brewery will churn out the first barrel of Senator keg on July 19. Photo/ Dalton Nyabundi, Standard

Kenya Breweries Limited has announced plans to source raw material for their Sh15 billion Kisumu keg plant locally in an economic empowerment drive.

The ‘west for west’ backward integration programme seeks to have Kisumu and its immediate neighbours produce majority of the sorghum needed to run the 1 million hectolitre plant that is nearing completion. Most of the direct jobs will also come from the region.