How Grekkon Limited is making innovative irrigation systems accessible to smallholder farmers

On January 2, 2017, a public holiday Grekkon Limited supplied its first smallholder farmer in Kenya with irrigation material. Who knew that this marked the birth of one of the best irrigation companies in Kenya, four years later? The founder, Mr Erastus Matete, a well-known and accomplished agronomist who has worked in several East African countries, envisioned a one-stop irrigation systems hub for smallholder farmers. Working from a small office in Westlands, in Nairobi, he purposed to combine irrigation with agronomy expertise. Such service was only available to large-scale farmers by large multinationals. There was no-one to support commercial rural smallholder farmers with irrigation plus agronomy advice. And so Grekkon Limited was born.

In 2019, during the Agribusiness Excellence Awards, an event sponsored by the Standard Group’s Farm Kenya Initiative, the company was voted 'Most Preferred Irrigation Systems Company in Kenya’. This award not only raised the company’s public profile but also cemented the company’s reputation as being the best irrigation company in Kenya. Since then, the company has grown tremendously in size and operations. Currently, it has six offices and stores in Nairobi, Kisumu, Eldoret, Nyeri, Meru, and Nyahururu, supported by a team of 24 staff members.