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Address
P. O. Box 64 - 80302, TAVETA
24/7 Customer Support
tatabafarmers@gmail.com
P. O. Box 64 - 80302, TAVETA
To assist our members, TATABA cooperative is engaged in the following activities:
We buy bananas from our members and sell them in aggregated lots to the market, to get the best price.
We provide ongoing support and training to our members in financial literacy, planning, and good agricultural practices, to ensure they get good yields.
We have two ripening chambers to provide more marketing opportunities regionally. The co-op engages with its partners in banana processing to develop banana edibles and by-products.
TATABA is using Rapid Multiplication Technology as well as Tissue Culture to grow clean planting materials, available to members at low cost.
We represent our members to get the best services from local, regional, and national government bodies, NGOs and commercial partners.
Later the members felt the desire to start marketing bananas. In order to accommodate all the banana farmers in Taita Taveta county, the members changed the name from TUWETA to TATABA (Taita Taveta Banana Farmers’ Cooperative Society Ltd) in 2018. Since its registration in 2013, TUWETA remained dormant. When TATABA was registered in 2018, a new board was elected with the mandate of making the cooperative vibrant.
The new leaders started a membership drive by holding education meetings every month in different banana growing zones. They also attended county agricultural shows in Taveta, Mwatate, Taita and Voi Sub counties where they promoted the TATABA Cooperative. The leaders also worked to popularize the society by making courtesy calls to all members of the County Assembly in Taveta Sub-County and Ward Administrators, Sub-County Commissioners, Ministry of Agriculture and the area Member of Parliament. They also held education days for the members to train them on Good Agricultural Practices through Agricultural Extension Officers and also solicited banana tissue seedlings for members from the National and County Government. These efforts were fruitful and the cooperative started aggregating and selling banana for its members at the end of November 2019.
When TATABA was registered in 2018 a new board was elected with the mandate of making the cooperative vibrant.