Value Chains
What the county grows, digs and makes
Each chain is published with the value addition attached to it — what the same output is worth graded, processed or packaged. A price on its own tells a grower what they are getting. This tells them what else is available.
The crop list is the argument
Macadamia, avocado, coffee and tea are the products the national Chamber has been moving, and they are what this county grows. That coincidence is the strongest paragraph a Nyamira dossier can open with, and it is verifiable rather than asserted.
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Tea
In progress
The county's largest smallholder crop by area, delivered green-leaf to factory collection centres on a daily cycle.
The value addition
Green leaf sold at the collection centre and graded, blended or packed tea sold to a buyer are two different products at two different prices. The gap between them is the county's largest single value-addition opportunity, and it is captured at the factory rather than at the farm.
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Coffee
In progress
Arabica grown on smallholdings and delivered as cherry to cooperative wet mills.
The value addition
Cherry, parchment and green bean are three prices for one harvest. Milling, grading and a traceable lot identity are what move a cooperative from the first to the third.
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Avocado
In progress
Hass and local varieties from smallholdings, harvested to a season that overlaps the main export windows.
The value addition
Export grade is a specification, not a quality: size, dry matter, maturity and traceability to the block. A grower who can evidence those is selling into a different market from one selling loose fruit at the gate.
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Macadamia
Planned
Nut grown on smallholdings, named in the Chamber's own export facilitation record alongside avocado, coffee and tea.
The value addition
Nut-in-shell and kernel are separated by drying, cracking and grading. The processing step is where the margin sits, and it is a plant investment rather than an agronomic one.
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Dairy
Planned
Zero-grazing units on small holdings, delivering to cooperative collection points.
The value addition
Raw milk is a commodity with hours of shelf life. Chilling, testing and bulking convert it into a product with a contract behind it, and the collection point is where that conversion has to happen.
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Banana
Planned
Grown throughout the county, largely for the domestic and regional market.
The value addition
Ripening control, grading and packaging are the difference between a bunch sold at a roadside and a graded carton sold to a retailer on a standing order.
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Soapstone and minerals
Planned
Extraction and hand-working of stone, a long-established trade in the wider Gusii highlands.
The value addition
Raw block, dressed stone and finished article are three markets. The finished article carries the design and the provenance story, and it is the only one of the three that travels well.
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Construction materials
Planned
Brick, ballast and dressed stone produced for the county's own building demand and its neighbours'.
The value addition
Consistent dimension, tested strength and a delivery schedule are what let a producer sell to a contractor rather than to a passer-by. The certification is the product.
Illustrative visualisation. Not a documentation of a specific site, person or event.
Why every chain is published with its addition
A price series on its own tells a grower what they are getting. Paired with the value addition attached to it, it tells them what else is available for the same harvest, and what the work between the two is. That pairing is the difference between a market report and an instrument that changes what a county earns.
The stage marks are honest: live means the chain is trading and documented here, in progress means the Chapter is working it, and planned means it is named and not yet worked. Nothing is marked live to look busy.