Kenya Greenmaster Fresh Business Plan — Organisation

The agronomy, packhouse, quality and commercial team, and the field-extension model that supports 1,600 growers.

Organisation

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The company employs 128 people in FY2027 rising to 742 by FY2031. Packhouse grading and packing accounts for the large majority, and the workforce is predominantly female, which is characteristic of the sector and relevant to the social compliance obligations in Section 11.

Function

FY2027

FY2028

FY2029

FY2030

FY2031

Comment

Packhouse operations

84

190

308

415

512

Grading, bulk packing and high-care prepared processing

Field extension and grower liaison

18

38

58

76

92

Agronomists and field officers; roughly one per 60 growers

Quality assurance and technical

9

20

32

44

54

Residue control, internal audit, traceability, laboratory

Logistics and cold chain

8

18

28

38

46

Collection, consolidation, export documentation

Commercial and customer management

4

9

14

18

22

European account management and programme planning

Finance and administration

5

11

12

13

16

Total employees

128

286

452

604

742

Appointment

Requirement

Why it is required before drawdown

Technical director

Responsible for residue control, certification and the systems approach

The appointment on which the licence to trade depends. It should precede any planting

Head of prepared operations

High-care processing experience in a retail-supplying environment

Recruiting this role late is the most common way prepared lines fail commissioning

Commercial director

Existing relationships with European category buyers

The retail programme pipeline is the precondition for the prepared capital expenditure

Head of field operations

Smallholder scheme management with demonstrable experience of side-selling control

1 600 growers at about 0.23 hectares each is a management problem before it is an agronomic one

Field extension runs at roughly one officer per sixty growers, which is why the extension line reaches US$1.07m by FY2031 and is the largest operating expense in the business. That ratio is not a target to be improved. It is the cost of the model chosen in Section 2.2, and reducing it is the most direct route to the side-selling problem the same section describes.