A seven-member-team from Kenya visited the Kerala Industrial Infrastructure Development Corporation (Kinfra) food processing park at Kakkenchery here on Saturday.
The visit was part of a feasibility study for setting up an agro-based small and medium enterprises (SME) industrial park at Eldoret, Kenya.
The delegation comprised Daniel Mutua, director, [Board of Industrial and Commercial Development Corporation (ICDC)]; Joseph Mwaura (chairman of the team); Paul Okwiri (valuer), Robert Chesire and Joel Wanjohi (investment analysts); Lazarus Odongo (legal advisor); and Joseph Waka (procurement).
Kinfra’s officials includes K.N. Srikumar, senior media advisor, K. Sudhakaran, general manager (projects), and Manu George (Kinfra food division), among others. T. Kishorekumar and C.V. Gireesh spoke to them on the food-processing industry in the State.
The officials said the ICDC was established in Kenya in 1954. At that time, it was called IDC (Industrial Development Corporation). With the events in those days indicating that colonial rule was coming to an end, the Kenyan government found it necessary to create the corporation for opening up the economy and placing it in indigenous hands post independence, they said.
