Workers stacking crates of avocado onto pallets beside the cold room Picking avocado by hand from a laden tree in the orchard Avocado ripening on the branch

Where harvest
meets market.

Avocado sourced across Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda, for processors here and for markets abroad. 224 tonnes a month.

128MT

Oil grade every month

96MT

Export grade every month

3

Countries we source from

Global

Export markets for avocado

Two sides of the same network.

The same growers, aggregators and transport that bring fruit into Kenyan processors also get Kenyan avocado onto a boat. Pick the side you need.

Crates of avocado alongside a loaded lorry at a collection point

Fruit brought to your gate

We buy from grower networks in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda and bring fruit into Kenyan processors, importing where local supply falls short. A shortfall in one country stops being your problem.

  • Oil grade avocado for processors
  • Hass and Fuerte
  • Import documentation and clearance handled
  • Graded and sorted to your specification
  • Volumes committed ahead of the season
Makena Agri sourcing network Map of East Africa. Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda supply oil grade avocado. Export grade is sourced from Kenya. Uganda Kenya Tanzania Nairobi

Three countries, one season after another.

Sourcing from one country means sourcing to one harvest window. We buy across three, so when one season tightens another is running.

Oil grade runs across all three countries, so one season picks up where the last leaves off.

Kenya
Tanzania
Uganda

Season windows are indicative. Fuerte harvest opening is set each year by the Agriculture and Food Authority.

On the ground.

A Hass avocado held on the branch
Hass on the tree
A laden avocado tree in an orchard row
Grower network
A cluster of export grade Hass avocado on the branch
Export grade fruit
A tied crate of graded avocado ready for dispatch
Graded and tied for dispatch

End to end, so you deal with one party.

You give us the tonnage, the grade and the date. Everything between the farm and your gate is ours to sort out.

Source

Bought through an established grower and aggregator network across the region, not through whoever happens to be available that week.

Aggregate

Small lots consolidated into full loads, so you get the tonnage you ordered in the number of deliveries you agreed.

Grade

Sorted and checked against your specification before it leaves. Rejects are our problem, not something you find on arrival.

Move

Transport, cold chain where needed, clearance and paperwork. Tracked to your factory or to the port.

Licensed and audited.

The paperwork a buyer asks for before they sign, in one place rather than buried in a footer.

  • Horticultural Crops Directorate

    Kenyan export licensing for horticultural produce.

  • Agriculture and Food Authority

    The national regulator for agricultural produce and trade.

  • GlobalG.A.P.

    Farm level food safety, traceability and good agricultural practice.

  • GRASP

    The GlobalG.A.P. assessment covering worker welfare and social practice.

  • SMETA

    Sedex ethical trade audit covering labour, health and safety, and business ethics.

  • Fresh Produce Consortium of Kenya

    The industry body for Kenyan fresh produce growers, exporters and traders.

Certificate numbers and current audit reports available on request.

Social impact

The fruit gets grown. The problem is the middle.

Kenya harvested a record crop last year. Two in every five of those avocados never reached a buyer. Not for want of demand, but because collection, aggregation and transport in the middle of the chain do not work.

40%

Of harvested Kenyan avocado never reaches a market

70%

Of the national crop is grown by smallholders

3x

Growth in avocado oil processing, 2024 to 2025

4x

What refined oil fetches over fresh fruit

Where the value leaks

Most Kenyan avocado is grown on plots too small to justify sending a lorry. A trader who will not drive out for two tonnes is not being difficult, he is being economic. So the fruit sits, ripens, and sells at whatever the gate price happens to be that morning. Or it does not sell at all.

What has changed

Avocado oil processing in Kenya went from 3,326 tonnes in 2024 to 10,188 tonnes in 2025. Processors want exactly the fruit that fails export grade, which is the fruit growers used to lose. There is now a buyer for the part of the harvest that used to rot.

What we do about it

We aggregate. Small lots become full loads, which makes the lorry worth sending. Large growers get a buyer who can take a whole block at once. Both get paid for fruit that would otherwise have been written off, and both deal with one party instead of six.

The goals this work sits under

  • 1

    No poverty

    Income for growers whose fruit had no route to a buyer.

  • 2

    Zero hunger

    Target 2.3, raising the incomes of small-scale food producers.

  • 3

    Good health and wellbeing

    Fruit into nutritional, pharmaceutical and cosmetic grade oils.

  • 8

    Decent work and economic growth

    Labour, health and safety standards audited under SMETA and GRASP.

  • 12

    Responsible production

    Target 12.3, cutting food loss along the supply chain.

Production, export and oil processing figures from the USDA Foreign Agricultural Service Kenya Avocado Annual, April 2026. Post-harvest loss and smallholder share from published assessments of the Kenyan avocado supply chain.

Who buys from us

Two kinds of buyer, and we work differently with each.

Oil processors

Processors buying for oil take the fruit that does not make export grade. We supply it in volume, graded and delivered, on standing monthly commitments rather than spot purchases. You get a predictable intake instead of whatever turns up at the gate.

Importers who need a partner on the ground

If you are importing and need someone in Kenya to consolidate shipments, that is what we do. You pay us a fee for the work of aggregating, grading, documenting and loading it.

We do not mark up the fruit. You see what the grower was paid, and your margin stays yours.

A halved avocado showing the flesh and stone

If you are buying at scale and want a reference before you commit, ask and we will put you in touch.

Tell us what you need and when.

Tonnage, grade and delivery date. We come back with a price and a date we can hold to.

Based in
Nairobi, Kenya
MT

Minimum order 20 MT.

Two weeks minimum lead time.

Goes to makena@makenaagri.com

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