Excel Foods will be setup to press sunflower oil from the sunflower seeds. The sunflower will be filtered and sold to the local low end users. And Excel Virgin Oil will be a premier product both for local and International Market.

The sunflower cake will be sold to the farmers to the farmers, who will make their own animal feeds for both dairy and poultry. Our product will Exo Sunflower Cake. Availability of the cake at a better prices will mean affordable animal feeds and hence increased profits and more milk and eggs both for sale and consumption.

To encourage rural enterprise and create wealth at the rural dry Area of Thika and Machakos, the farmers will be provided with Modern Hives to replace the traditional and the Kenya Top Bar hives. The clean filtered honey will be packaged and sold by Excel Food. The Excel Natural Honey.

Excel Foods will be located at the rural area and intends to create employment away from the city. Young and idle labour located at the city will be attracted to the village as there will be increased earnings at the farm level.
By fronting both Bee Keeping and Sunflower farming, farmers will have multiple income streams and will be still earn even when drought or their is crop failure. Modern hives give around 60Kg of honey per annum as compared to 10-20Kg from the traditional hives, hence better yeilds

Problema

Vegetable oil is one of the key sub-sectors of agriculture, with soybean and palm oil being the leading sources in production of vegetable oil in the world respectively. At present, Kenya’s domestic production of edible oils is estimated at 380,000 tonnes, only about one-third of its annual demand. The remainder is imported, at a cost of $140 million, making edible oil the country’s second most important item after petroleum. Area under vegetable oil crops has remained fairly steady over the years. The key reason for this has partly been attributed to irregular and unstable weather conditions. The key players in the vegetable oil industry in Kenya comprise processors who extract the oil from the seeds and also produce oil cake for use in animal feeds, and refiners who convert crude oils into a form suitable for human consumption. Given that Kenya imports over US $140 million worth of edible oil annually, the investment opportunities in this sub-sector are quite enormous. The oil seeds that can be commercially grown in Kenya are many but of major importance are sunflower, simsim, soya beans, rapeseed, coconut, castor, groundnuts and sunflower.