Growpact (https://growpactkenya.com) is a young Kenyan company which produces and supplies high quality, fast growing and high yielding crop seedlings for commercial large scale, medium and small-scale farmers in Kenya. It takes quality certified seeds and uses tried and tested methods, including controlling the environment in its greenhouses in order to ensure the highest rates of germination for the crops. It offers a wide range of products, including freshly germinated and grafted fruit seedlings (mango, pawpaw, passion, avocado, strawberry, etc.), vegetable seedlings (sukumawiki, cabbage, tomatoes, onions, zucchini, capsicum, courgette, chillies etc.) as well as herbs, which include stevia, rosemary, mint, etc.
Growpacts goal is to be an all-around circular company in horticulture. It wants to operate by means of biological and circular solutions. The company propagates a replicable horticultural concept, suitable also to other contexts. It is constantly improving its production processes, services, and products. It makes use of ecologically sustainable agricultural methods, materials and products and closely cooperates with Amelia Farms in Uganda (https://ameliaagro.com/).
Internship opportunities and extension assignments (working either locally or from the Netherlands/Belgium)
Growpact Kitale Kenya offers a number of internship opportunities. If possible serving as an intern at the facility in Kenya is preferable, but a number of assignments can also be executed and researched from a distance.
- Workflow description of Growpact
Analysis of bottlenecks in production, distribution, tracking and monitoring and suggest improvements - Create and introduce and analogue seed planning schedule
- Improve the process of order intake and labor division/workflow of orders
- Analysis of growing conditions (for a cultivation specialist)
Analysis growing conditions
Improve seed medium
Improve fertilization - Optimizing cultivation conditions (for a cultivation specialist)
- Maintenance of facilities and machines
Mapping of all machines and
components
Determine maintenance needs
Make a plan - Introduction and/or improvement of sensors
Possibilities to use sensors in remote areas? (Affordable, simple, reliable Smart)
Explore what is available in the
market in Kenya
Make a design and implement a
sensoring system
(Needs: temperature, humidity,
light, O2, EC pH , NPK, weight,
camera) - Solar energy options
Explore what is available in the
market in Kenya
Research for capacity is required in Kitale (also battery storage, delivering back to the grid options etc. - Wind energy options
- Mapping various modules that Growpact is developing ( for further development and sales)
Plant nursery
Irrigation container
Germination chamber
Climate chamber
Supporting materials
Hoses
Trolleys
Rail
Racks
etc
Name and number each component (barcode, make a complete purchase list) - Market research (various emerging economies)
Desk study
Sales opportunities
Purchasing power
Demographic
Etc - Solar energy options
Explore what is available in the market in Kenya
Research for capacity is required in Kitale (also battery storage, delivering back to the grid options etc. - Wind energy options
- Mapping various modules that Growpact is developing ( for further development and sales)
Plant nursery
Irrigation container
Germination chamber
Climate chamber
Supporting materials
Hoses
Trolleys
Rail
Racks
ect
Name and number each component (barcode, make a complete purchase list) - Market research (various emerging economies)
Desk study
Sales opportunities
Purchasing power
Demographic
Etc
