Omondi's secrets to cracking macadamia export business

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Workers at Grow Fairly Limited, a macadamia and cashew nuts processing company based in Kilifi County. FILE PHOTO | POOL

Having been in the macadamia business for nine years as an exporter, Frank Omondi was disturbed by middlemen taking advantage of smallholder farmers.

In his analysis, middlemen were taking home margins as high as 38 percent while small farmers, who form the bulk of macadamia growers, take a paltry 15 percent.

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