Horticulture directly provides employment to 100,000 people, primarily women, employs university graduates and indirectly supports close to 1 million individuals & dependants. Kenya has an amazing climate & a range of ecological zones that allows year round production of a number of agricultural  crops.

The first settlers planted Coffee, Tea, Sisal, Sugar Cane, Cotton, Rice, Wheat & Maize and this led to the establishment of large estates and strong agriculture learning institutions. Del Monte then set up their Pineapple plantation for processed pineapple in the mid 1950’s 1963 : Post Independence Migration to the UK led to establishment of two way trade & entrepreneurs identified opportunities to supply indigenous vegetables to migrants1970’s-80’s : Significant growth due to favorable domestic policies for exports & a growing demand for fresh produce .