A Brief History
Mea Ltd, is a family company providing Kenyan solutions to Kenyan problems in the agricultural sector.
In 1961, Mea Limited was incorporated. For over 60 years, Mea has been at the service of Kenyan farmers. The first generation of Mea specialized in importation of Fertilizer and blending them to the specific needs of the Kenyan market.
At the beginning on new century, Mea decided to go one step closer to our end-users, Kenyan farmers. The idea was to offer services using the latest innovation and technologies at the time to offer soil testing, water testing and plant tissue analysis to our farmers. This allowed Mea to incrementally innovate our blended fertilizers which today have become an industry standard.
In 2008 the socio-economic landscape of the agricultural sector shifted dramatically. As a result, the team at Mea decided to diversify our portfolio away from simply trading, an embark on a trajectory of Manufacturing. The result being the second iteration of Mea, which resulted in Fertiplant East Africa, aka FEA. The only steam granulation plant in Eastern Africa. This project was led by the families second generation
About Kumea
Kumea is the third iteration of Mea Ltd, led by the families third generation. Kumea is a platform company with our end users, farmers, at the focal point. Kumea works by providing farmers with access, be it finance, inputs, services etc…
How it works
Farm Management
Kumea seeks to improve the capacity of farmers by offering an inbuilt farm management system. This allows users to digitize their farm activities and financial statements. These records can be shared with partners, such as banks, agronomists and even other farmers.
Services
Over the years, Mea has learnt the importance of best practice. Kumea allows farmers access to service providers who help facilitate best practice on farms. Kumea is able to recommend best practice and advice to users based on location, crops and all sorts of parameters.
Partners
Kumea is an ecosystem that is centered around farmers, however, extends to other players in the agricultural sector. Other partners that have been vetted by Kumea are able to provide their services to Kumea’s network of farmers. This collaboration allows farmers to focus on farming and Kumea facilitates, delivery to farm of inputs, services, delivery of output from farm and access to markets.