National Cereals and Produce Board (NCPB)
Description
National Cereals and Produce Board (NCPB) offers services at its depots and silos countrywide. It procures, manages and markets grains. It provides farmers with high quality products and services at competitive prices.
The commercial role of NCPB is grain trading. The board trades in maize, wheat, beans, rice, millet and sorghum. Other additional services include: Leasing out surplus facilities, grain drying, weighing, fumigation, grain cleaning, grading, warehousing, and bagging at silos and clearing and forwarding.
Since 2002, the Board has diversified into marketing agricultural inputs such as fertilizers and certified seeds. This is a strategy to enhance production through quality inputs. The Board procures stores and maintains a Strategic Grain Reserve stock of up to four million bags on the behalf of the Government for food security purposes.
The Government has instructed NCPB to beef up the stock to eight million bags. NCPB has the capability to turn over the stock to commercial outlets when instructed by Government. The Board facilitates the procurement, storage, maintenance and distribution of famine relief food to deficit areas under the National Famine Relief Programme.
NCPB offers services at its depots and silos. They include drying, pest control, forwarding, grading, spraying, conveying, bagging, warehousing, and aeration of stored grains, grain cleaning, aflatoxin testing, loading and off-loading sale of seedlings, space for sun drying ant hire of tarpaulins.
The Board holds storage capacities of more than 20 million bags of 90kg in conventional stores and silo bins. Some facilities are not fully used and are leased out to third parties. The rates vary from region to region, but are highly demand driven. The facilities include offices, houses, canteens and undeveloped land, NCPB offers warehousing services. A customer is charged every month depending on the area occupied. It leases minor equipment such as elevators and mobile weighing scales. The equipment is used to lift and weigh grains.
Contact
Address:Machakos Road, Industrial Area
Telephone:6536028/6555288
Fax:6557622/6650710
P.O Box:30586-00100,Nairobi
Kenya
National Cereals and Produce Board (NCPB)