September 10, 2015 – SACE, Rota Guido – as leader of 11 Italian SMEs – the Kerio Valley Development Authority and Moi University of Eldoret have announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding. In it, the institutions commit themselves to the development in Kenya of a livestock project worth €25 million. Signed yesterday in the presence of Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta and the President of the Lombardy Region, Roberto Maroni, as part of the initiatives related to the National Day of Kenya at the Universal Exhibition, the agreement provides for the design, construction and supply of a farm with innovative technological features and a fully self-sufficient energy supply. The farm will be able to produce about 30 thousand liters of milk, 1.2 tons of meat, 1 megawatt of energy from biomass and more than 1.5 megawatts of power generated by solar panels each day. The contract includes the supply of all machinery and the development of all activities needed to run the farm: the supply of machinery for soil preparation, plant irrigation and cultivation, the delivery of farm animals and machinery for food, refrigeration and storage systems, machinery for packaging of finished products, the installation of solar panels, the supply of installations for the production of energy from biomass. The agreement also includes the transfer of knowledge, consulting services and training at Moi University, which hosts the most advanced department in the country for animal husbandry. Along with Rota Guido, a Piacenza-based SME specialized in the design and construction of farms and biogas plants, 10 Italian SMEs take part in the project: Casella Macchine Agricole from Emilia, Sivam from Lodi, Faresin Industries and Reda from Vicenza, Tdm Group from Brescia, Ipi from Umbria, Mancini from Marche, Zanotti from Mantova, Gruppo Prandi from Rome and Cappello Alluminio from Sicily. Each company is specialized in one segment or in a process for the realization of the farm. (Red)
