The model
The whole fruit is the business plan.
Most avocado processors extract the oil and dispose of the rest — up to 85% of every fruit. We designed Wachomi Foods the other way around: a plant where every stream leaving the gate is a product someone pays for.
How it works
Oil.
Ripe Hass fruit, cold-pressed within 24–48 hours of delivery. Two grades from day one: culinary extra virgin, and unrefined crude for cosmetic formulators. We press; we do not refine — crude ships as-is to formulators and refiners. Drums, IBC, flexitank and target MOQs: Bulk & Packaging.
Butter.
A portion of our oil is blended into cosmetic-grade avocado butter — a fast-growing ingredient in clean beauty formulation.
Fertiliser.
Press cake is composted on site and sold back to our supplying farmers below retail. The orchard that feeds the plant is fed by the plant.
Fuel.
Seeds and skins are dried and pressed into briquettes. They fire our own dryers first; the surplus is sold. We never sell raw press waste as animal feed — avocado skins are unsafe for livestock, and we take that seriously.
Next (phase two).
Seed powder and fruit powder lines follow once the oil line runs at steady state. We sequence; we don't stack.
Sourcing
Why farmers come first
A processing plant is only as good as its supply. Our sourcing model is built on committed offtake with smallholder farmers in Murang'a — fair, predictable farmgate prices, agronomic coordination through established farmer networks, and the compost loop that returns value to the same soil the fruit came from.
Roadmap
Certifications: our roadmap, stated plainly
We hold no certifications yet — we haven't pressed a litre. Here is the plan:
KEBS standardisation mark
Kenya's quality mark for edible oils. Filed at plant commissioning in May 2027.
HACCP (Codex)
A full hazard-control plan for the press, in place from the first day of production.
Halal + Kosher
Planned early alongside commissioning — a requirement for many Gulf and diaspora buyers.
Cosmetic ingredient documentation
A certificate of analysis and safety data sheet with every product, starting with the first batches.
ISO 22000 / FSSC 22000
The food-safety management standard large food companies expect of their suppliers.
KenyaGAP / GlobalGAP
Good-farming-practice certification across our smallholder network, so every litre is traceable back to the farm.
Organic certification — EU / ECOCERT pathway
Organic requires a multi-season conversion period, so this is the longest road. COSMOS, the cosmetic-grade standard, follows under the same ECOCERT audit.
Fairtrade
A premium label that channels value back to farmers. We'll weigh it once the core certifications are in place.
If your procurement pipeline needs a certified East African supplier, we should be talking now.
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