Seeds Department •

Seed department outlook- products 2015

Vegetable seeds

Post Harvest

Active bags seedlings

Vegetable seeds-2015

Vegetable seeds

Small scale holders

Open pollinated varieties-90%

Hybrid seed varieties -10%

Large scale holders

Open pollinated

Herbs and special leaves

French beans and peas

Target market

Small scale holders- hybrid, open pollinated seed

varieties

Large scale growers-herbs ,French beans ,peas

NGO’S and CBO’s for food security projects

PRODUCT FOCUS

Our current crop mix & varieties.

• Our “ in the pipe line” varieties

• Our seedling approach

• Positioning grafted seedlings (watermelon and for BW tolerance )

Our current crop mix and varieties • Tomato Indeterminate hybrids Green house varieties

• Corazon ,Eva FI .

• Tomato Determinate hybrids

• Galilia F1 and Shanty F1

• Sweet pepper

• Grandisimo F1,Golden sun F1,Evergreen F1, Orange Glow F1

Cucumber Green house varieties

Sarig F1 and Carmen F1

• Onion- Neptune F1 ,Rouge F1 ,Sivan F1 and Russet F1

• Cabbage- Taurus

• Cabbage - Landini F1

• Hot pepper- serenade F1 and Habanero F1

• Watermelon-Lahat F1

• Water Melon - Riverside F1

• Sweet Melon- Galia Improved F1

Lahat Crop

• OUR CURRENT OPV CROP MIX AND VARIETIES

Tomatoes Riogrande,Cal J Water Melon sugar baby ,Crimson sweet,Charlestone grey Eggplant , kales ,Swisscharde Okra Clemson spineless,Pusa Sawani, Red beet Butternut Onion Red Creole Cabbage Copen hagen Carrots Nantes Cucumber Super marketer Coriander Cultivated, Atlas Green Bunching onion Curly Parsley Pepper California Wonder Squash Butter nut Squash Ambassador, Black Beauty

Our “in-pipe line” varieties

• Cabbage NIZ

• Tomato Shanty improved and Galilea improved

• Melon Rani and Suzan

Ramus F1

Seedlings approach

• To supply farmers with ready seedlings of high value crops which will go

along way in reducing crops losses associated with poor nursery

management.

.Advantage in getting the right variety at the right time

SEEDLING GRAFTING

• Tomato rootstocks with bacterial wilt resistant will be made available. Trials going on in collaboration with Soloplant and Monsanto and other sources

• Sweet Melon and water Melon challenges in Fusarium wilt will be addressed through grafting with a resistant root stock

Galilea Shanty

Varieties on trail and the segmentation

• Galilea improved(3386)-All season variety.HR :Vd,Fol(race1,2)ToMV.

IR:Mi,TYLCV.

• Shanty improved(3391)- Outstanding PM

tolerance.IR;Mi,Mj,ToTV,TYLCV,TSWV.

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• Cabbage Romus F1 Red cabbage

Galilea Improved

Shanty Improved

Cabbage NIZ Cabbage Romus F1-red

OPVs Future Vs Hybrids • The future in modern farming challenges lies in plant genetics and

breeding and NOT only in pest and disease control.

• OPVs have been in market for long .The Kenyan market is changing to hybrids

.Gradual replacement of OPVs.They are no resistances and sometimes problems of getting true to type.

Monsanto seeds We are currently the distributor of the following varieties

1. Cabbage blue dynasty-Heat tolerance

2. victoria- Gloria Cabbage

3. Oxylus-warm area variety

4. Pea Oregon pod iii

5. Carrots Karina /Nantes

6. Pepper Red knight

7. Tomato Anna & Eden

8. Watermelon Sentinel-7-10kg fruit

Thank you.