From Our Farms:Macadamia Processing
Raw macadamia nuts are sourced from both farms and fields. Farms are the company orchards that includes Kiboko, Kiaora, Nando, Hatwara and Kihenia. Field nuts are sourced from out growers and are sourced from among others Embu, Thika, Muranga, Meru, Karatina, and Western among others.
The nuts are weighed upon receipt and quality inspection is done, to check on the nature of nuts including; insect damaged nuts, the extent of molding and moisture content. The nuts are then put into the nut shed bins where the process of curing begins. This is done in three stages; primary, secondary and final curing.
Moisture content checks are done in stages to ensure the kernel parameters do not change and are desirable to the customers. Primary curing takes a period of between a week and two ensuring, secondary curing takes less than a week whereas the final curing can be achieved within a week.
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Digital Watch: Personal Productivity Apps
In this segment, we recommend tools to help improve your personal productivity. Here are the top 4 apps to help you realize more goals, more efficiently, in less time.
Productivity tools have a compounding effect on our lives, like the flywheel effect. Jim Collins in his book Good to Great says, “No matter how dramatic the end result, good-to-great transformations never happen in one fell swoop.” No one killer strategy or single brilliant discovery will turn a business or person in to an overnight success. Rather, a combination of resilience and calculated strategy, executed over a long period of time. “…the process resembles relentlessly pushing a giant, heavy flywheel, turn upon turn, building momentum until a point of breakthrough, and beyond.” Here are some tools to grease your wheel. Download them from your Playstore or Appstore, for free and get productive, today.
- Todoist (for Web, Android, iOS, Windows, Mac)
This app tracks your tasks as you check them off, then shows how productive you’ve been today and this week—and if you’re improving or not. Just add and organize tasks as quickly as you tick them off once done and see how yourself accomplish your goals one by one.
- Slack (for Web, Android, iOS)
They say team work makes the dream work, but as our CHRO says, we must go a step higher, we must collaborate to make to make our even bigger visions come to life. Slack is just the tool for that. It is a collaboration hub to help you get you through your projects seamlessly. From channeled conversations to in-built voice and video calls and live online screen sharing as well as the most efficient project management tools you will ever need, Slack is your ideal collaborative partner.
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