NPCK and Farm Input Promotions Africa (FIPS Africa) have today signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to establish a long-term partnership aimed at enhancing potato productivity, strengthening the potato value chain, and improving farmer incomes.

Through this collaboration, NPCK and FIPS Africa will jointly work to: improve smallholder farmers’ access to quality inputs, training, and market linkages, promote adoption of new technologies through field demonstrations and digital platforms such as Viazi Soko, empower youth and women to actively participate in input distribution systems, potato production, and value addition, support research, training, and dissemination of practical guides on best practices in potato production and agribusiness and undertaking joint fundraising, communication, and advocacy efforts to scale impact across potato-growing counties.

The MoU underscores both organizations’ shared commitment to building a competitive, sustainable, and inclusive potato industry in Kenya. By leveraging their combined strengths—NPCK’s multi-stakeholder coordination and policy advocacy, and FIPS Africa’s farmer-centered innovations and extension network—the partnership will provide a strong framework for sustainable growth and transformation of the potato sector.

This milestone marks a significant step towards realizing a robust potato value chain that benefits farmers, processors, traders, and consumers alike.