AGRICULTURAL VALUe ChAIn FInAnCInG In KenYA

22 • AGRICULTURAL VALUE CHAIN FINANCING IN KENYA: ASSESSMENT OF POTENTIAL OPPORTUNITIES FOR GROWTH
value chain. However this is bearing in mind the comparative prioritisation of
other commodities such as maize or dairy, given their impact on the economy.
There is nothing other than this statement to demonstrate prioritisation.
Nonetheless, negative Government of Kenya intervention in the egg value
chain was also not mentioned in the literature reviewed. The market for eggs is
not regulated. This value chain therefore received the full six percent available
for this rater.
5.7 COMPLEMENTaRY TECHNICaL aSSISTaNCE aND
BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT SERVICES
Access to services was limited to professional consulting available to large
commercial producers. However, the literature did not cite technical assistance
as a gap. Thus, the egg value chain received one percent of the potential two
percent for this rater.
Value chain service provision between buyers and producers, as discussed
above under access to buyer credit, is robust. The egg value chain received the
full four percent available for this rater.
5.8 GEOGRaPHICaL SPREaD
There is a strong concentration of clients for the egg value chain around in the
towns of Kikuyu, Nairobi, Naivasha, Webuye, Mombasa, Nakuru and Kisumu.
Thus, the full ten percent available to this rater was awarded.
Access to minimum infrastructure for financial institutions to access egg value
chain actors poses no problem. As above, the full ten percent was awarded
for this rater.