Innovation

As a company, we have a system called BSC, or Balanced Score Card. It is an international management recording system that looks into areas like marketing, sales support, and technological procedures involved. This system helps to achieve UN goals by easing the industrial procedures and techniques involved in measuring the produce and finding solutions to improve its output through scientific tests on the soil and crops suitable for the soil.

Good health and well-being. Our company emphasizes the use of organic fertilizers, which are capable of mitigating problems associated with synthetic fertilizers. Organic fertilizers comprise a variety of plant-derived materials that range from fresh or dried plant material to animal manures and litter to agricultural by-products. Organically derived fertilizers often provide the secondary and micronutrients plants need, usually absent in synthetic fertilizers. Absence of heavy metals such as Mercury, Lead, Cadmium, and Uranium have been found in synthetic fertilizers, which can cause disturbances in the kidneys, lungs, and liver and cause lifestyle diseases such as cancer.

Inspiration

Depreciation of soil nutrients is in most parts of Kenya. This is brought about by factors such as increased advancement in the Industrial Revolution, desertification, limited in-season rainfall and the chemistry and composition of certain soils can make it harder for plants to absorb nutrients.

''We are quite active on the ground and we are not so big on social media: we focus more on one-on-one interactions with the farmer reaching the farmer, demonstrating because we know that whenever we meet this farmer or want to meet this farmer they really don’t know, so we really aimed at walking the way; like if it a potato farmer we want to walk with them for the 90 days or 120 days if it a tomato farmer, the same, so it is our ground practical approach that is helping us to achieve our organizational goals until the farmer is satisfied. As previously said in the production, if we do not increase ones yield by a minimum of 20% then what we are doing is not good enough and we focus on how we can improve that."

Overall impact

Improve soil fertility. Through the use of organic fertilizers and products in the soil, it balances the soil pH, making it more effective for crop production. It has also helped to maximize the use of organic products such as compost, cattle manures, poultry droppings, and domestic sewage.

Increase food productivity on a small scale. By creating products that are suitable for any type of soil, the company has helped to increase the yield in crops in the sense that unused fifty by fifty acres of land can be remolded and used to feed a community of over fifty people.

Help improve the economic and financial status of every individual involved. The company has helped to create jobs for the people in the country; that is farmers, distributors, science specialists, who are involved in testing soil samples and creating products, and agro vets personnel

Business benefit

Agribusiness

It includes all types of businesses in the food sector, from small family farms to global agricultural conglomerates. In Kenya, the agricultural sector is the backbone of the economy, contributing approximately 33 percent of Kenya's Gross Domestic Product (GDP).

However, farms are just one component of agribusiness. Agribusiness also includes businesses involved in manufacturing agricultural equipment (such as tractors) and chemical-based products (like fertilizers) and companies involved in the production and refinement of biofuels.

It also entails building production systems and supply chains that help maintain a country’s economic and social stability. Through the development of organizational and technological knowledge, agribusiness plays a vital role in protecting the environment and biodiversity near farms and using natural resources sustainably.

Food Security

Food security is central to the agricultural industry. Sustainable agriculture is a key to fulfilling one of the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): Zero Hunger. In addition to food security, the agricultural sector raises the incomes among the poorest communities up to four times more effectively than other sectors, according to the World Bank.

Job Creation

Throughout the world, agriculture plays an important role in job creation. For example, agriculture accounts for 25% of exports in developing countries in Latin America. Agriculture, including livestock, forestry, and fishing, accounts for about 27 percent of Kenya's GDP and for 60 percent of export earnings from trade in goods This activity is a source of economic activity and jobs in these countries. The agriculture sector employs more than 40 percent of the total population and 70 percent of the rural population, hence helping to improve the living standards of its nationals.

Social and environmental benefit

Adaptation of the Green Economy that was formulated by United Nations Environmental Programme

The role of Green Economy, Sustainable Consumption and Production and Resource Efficiency for Sustainable Development: Sustainable Consumption and Production aims to improve production processes and consumption practices to reduce resource consumption, waste generation, and emissions across the full life cycle of processes and products – while Resource Efficiency refers to the ways in which resources are used to deliver value to society and aims to reduce the amount of resources needed, and emissions and waste generated, per unit of product or service.

Cosmocel has achieved this through the introduction and adaptation of scientifically approved products that are economically friendly to both the soil and its products. This is through the instigation of organic fertilizers and organic plant nutrition products.

Interview

Henry Wanjala, Country Coordinator(Kenya)