Safi Organics Ltd.
Samuel Rigu is an experienced agricultural professional currently serving as the CEO of Safi Organics Ltd. since February 2015, where the company focuses on decentralized fertilizer production using innovative MIT-developed technology to empower farmers and enhance agricultural sustainability in Africa. Additionally, Samuel has been a manager at Takachar since July 2013, conducting research on agricultural waste management and training farmers in sustainable practices, including converting agricultural waste into eco-friendly fuel briquettes. Prior roles include serving as an agriculturalist at Bishop Wambari AIC Polytechnic, where responsibilities included coordinating agricultural activities and providing education on sustainable practices, and as a farm manager at Turning Point, where Samuel trained women in sustainable organic agriculture. Samuel holds a BSc in Agribusiness Management with a specialization in Economics from the University of Nairobi, completed in 2011.
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Safi Organics Ltd.
We use technology, validated and tested at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), utilizes torrefaction, whereby agricultural waste is treated under moderate heat in air-controlled environment in order to rapidly break down the long cellulosic chains. The resultant carbon-rich substrate is then mixed with special nutrient recipe (dependent on the soil and crop requirements) into a standalone fertilizer, Safi Sarvi. We eliminate the long-distance fertilizer transportation, we also drastically reduce the fertilizer cost while offering farmers a much higher - quality product. Our product, Safi Sarvi, is a locally produced carbon-negative Fertilizer that helps smallholder farmers improves yields by up to 30%. Farmers who use our product earns between 20-30% additional income from the increased harvest. In addition, our carbon-rich substrate stays inert in the soil for hundreds of years – and therefore for every acre of land that uses our product, we are effectively sequestering 2.2 tons of CO2 equivalent from the atmosphere.