Ngilu Making Kaluvu - Low hanging fruits for cottage industries

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This shows the ease of hustler manufacturing cottage industries. Why import alcohol from China or even Nairobi? Just get the brewers trained on packaging, give them packaging machines and materials baas. Easy to replicate across the country with busaa, chang'aa, makavo name it. Or any other product - yoghurt, bread, cakes, school shoes, uniforms, plastic chairs, fertilizer - The potential of this cottage industries is what makes Nairobi/Mt Kenya Mafia wet their pants.

For safety - the cooperative models and social contracts are enough safeguards.

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The Nderitu's BJ thing is good mode for Laikipia/Nyandarua terrain. Can get several bags of potatoes from any corner. Or take coffins through those muddy Laikipia footpaths

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[RV Pundit]

How can gov support cottage industries? I see Kibaki industrial things all over country are now house for donkey to sleep. The markets are even better.

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Whenever govt officials hear industries and manufacturing, they think big tenders.  Ngilu model is the same. Build KICOTEC.

Bottoms -up would mean working with what is already there - the local brewers, the cobblers, the tailors, the farmers - then link them with a few institutional buyers - schools, hospitals, government offices, to break up the power of brokers/tenderpreneurs.

[gout]

Even these can be easily given out as incubation hubs.  The Totosci cable guy is using such a facility in Kiangwaci.

Rent is one of the bottlenecks for start ups so this can be given out with subsidized electricity to Polytechnic graduates to start off their welding, plumbing businesses.

How can gov support cottage industries? I see Kibaki industrial things all over country are now house for donkey to sleep. The markets are even better.

[RV Pundit]

Yes maybe best support is to organize them to cooperatives and give the gov tenders. For now it remain mhindi business.

Whenever govt officials hear industries and manufacturing, they think big tenders.  Ngilu model is the same. Build KICOTEC.

Bottoms -up would mean working with what is already there - the local brewers, the cobblers, the tailors, the farmers - then link them with a few institutional buyers - schools, hospitals, government offices, to break up the power of brokers/tenderpreneurs.

[hk]

Muratina (kaluvu in kamba) is a low hanging fruit entry to light manufacturing. The problem is mututho law. By bottling it up the large low end market is priced out. As a result the business growth is hampered. Mututho law and the ban on traditional african alcohol should be lifted. Mead beverages can be a huge market in Kenya, already kiuks and kamba is a ready market.

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Mututho laws on alcohol are very progressive. Mututho really understand alcohol socially, economically and politically.

The Mututho laws legalised chang'aa and other local brews as long as packaged. Even proposed setting up of chang'aa breweries in each county before Diageo and provincial administration peed on it.

Muratina (kaluvu in kamba) is a low hanging fruit entry to light manufacturing. The problem is mututho law. By bottling it up the large low end market is priced out. As a result the business growth is hampered. Mututho law and the ban on traditional african alcohol should be lifted. Mead beverages can be a huge market in Kenya, already kiuks and kamba is a ready market.

[hk]

Mututho laws on alcohol are very progressive. Mututho really understand alcohol socially, economically and politically.

The Mututho laws legalised chang'aa and other local brews as long as packaged. Even proposed setting up of chang'aa breweries in each county before Diageo and provincial administration peed on it.

Muratina (kaluvu in kamba) is a low hanging fruit entry to light manufacturing. The problem is mututho law. By bottling it up the large low end market is priced out. As a result the business growth is hampered. Mututho law and the ban on traditional african alcohol should be lifted. Mead beverages can be a huge market in Kenya, already kiuks and kamba is a ready market.

Progressive meaning?? Mutotho law is what has decimated rural areas with increased alcoholism and all types of social ills. Even before Mutotho law distillation was legal. Its the regulations imposed that has hampered formal formation of local (changaa ) distilleries. By now we should have our own waragi (uganda). Due to overregulation its cheaper to import ethanol, dilute, add flavour , then bottle. The remaining local distillers are forced to sell very high potent changaa to compete, this sometimes ends up killing people cause of impurities.
Limiting alcohol selling hours is what has led to temporary hoarding. Due to limited selling hours consumers normally if they can afford, buy what they're consuming and extra for the next day , cause they can't wait till the evening. Regulating availability of anything leads to unintended consequences, in most of kenya alcoholism. Kwame owino of IEA wrote a paper on it https://www.businessdailyafrica.com/bd/briefs-press-releases/iea-proposes-new-way-to-tackle-excessive-drinking-2248462

[Omollo]

It's a disorder of some kind.

1. Bitange Ndemo set about building an IT city. I did wonder whether he is building a machine that would transform people who came near Konza into ITC geniuses. He ate money, was arrested but as you know with Kenya courts, he walked away Scott free. No IT city as we knew from the beginning.

2. Mudavadi decides to add to his Goldenberg & Anglo Leasing egg nest. So he embarks on the construction of "markets" around the country. Totally ugly crap. The first phase sees open and mabati edifices. The second phase he puts up huge structures. Often in the middle of a market town taking all the air and space. For both traders avoid them like the plague. They complain that the structures ruined their businesses

Promotion of ITC would've gone through schools. Use the money dumped in Konza to incentivize youth. Help them take patents and develop apps etc. Reward them with contracts and help them market. Would be slow but it would hit gold when big companies would sign contracts. Already Kenyans were taking business from India operating call centers. Thanks in part to tolerable English language skills

A market. It is not a building. It is when the buyer meets the seller. I used to enjoy visiting those markets in Bomet and in Nandi especially Chepterit & Kabiyet. In Kabiyet I saw the Father of All bulls that went for a clean 2m. Never seen such a bidding war people on phones. There was a minister from Nyeri who bid but lost. Was told they didn't want it for slaughter but for breeding. The creature was tall huge and easily dwarfed other bulls, humiliating them with dominance climbing on them.

The clothes markets, the food area, the utensils, shoes etc wares placed on the ground and you walk through talking to people and being flattered to buy.

Mudavadi destroyed all that arguing that he was protecting them from the rain! The rain in Kericho, Bomet and Kisii is legendary. But that's what makes such markets sexy. The people didnt ask for "markets" they already had markets. More prosperous traders traveled from one to another. They were on different days. They don't need rooms to store stuff and pay expensively!

So it is a curse on the political leadership. Their motive is cash. So they build

How can gov support cottage industries? I see Kibaki industrial things all over country are now house for donkey to sleep. The markets are even better.