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Bio-Pesticides to Protect Stored Grains from Weevils.

We develop health- and environment-friendly bio-pesticides from medicinal plants — alternatives to harmful conventional pesticides that help farmers and traders protect cowpea, maize and rice in storage.

Plant-Based Bio-Pesticides
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Stored Grain Protection
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Farmers & Traders
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Food Security

Alternative Approaches for Food Security in Africa

Molepse BioResources researches alternative approaches for food security in Africa. We develop bio-pesticides from medicinal plants that are health- and environment-friendly, as alternatives to harmful conventional pesticides.

We commercialise among legume and cereal farmers and traders — especially women dealing with cowpea, maize and rice — to protect crops in storage, improve income and support safer food. Our products are made from medicinal plants available locally in Kenya, with new products from aromatic plants in development.

Originality. Quality. Affordability.

Originality

Essential oils from the natural ecosystem — eco-friendly, with no adverse effects on plant growth, seed viability or cooking quality.

Quality

No synthetic chemical additives. Pest mortality within five minutes of fumigation; repellency is immediate.

Affordability

Efficient production, with software that streamlines the value chain to keep solutions accessible.

Dudukit & Dudumit

Two plant-based bio-pesticide products for protecting stored grains.

Dudukit bio-pesticide product

Dudukit

A bio-pesticide from medicinal plants, developed to help protect stored grains from insect pests including weevils.

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Dudumit bio-pesticide product

Dudumit

A complementary plant-based bio-pesticide for post-harvest grain protection, made from locally available medicinal plants.

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For All Stored Grains

Our products support protection across major stored cereals and legumes.

Maize Beans Cowpeas Rice
Donatus Njoroge, Founder and CEO of Molepse BioResources
Founder & CEO

Donatus Njoroge

Growing up in rural central Kenya, Donatus saw weevils destroy family maize stores. Synthetic pesticides were expensive and often ineffective — and a family member was lost to illness linked to pesticide exposure. That experience inspired his Master’s research and the invention of Molepse’s multi-award-winning organic products.

Meet the Team

Multi-Award-Winning Innovation

Year Award / Recognition Status Source
2017 East Africa Post-Harvest Technologies Award Winner Mount Kenya University
2018 Africa Innovation Summit Top 50 Innovators in Africa Mount Kenya University
2018–2019 Kenya National Innovation Award Overall Winner — Agriculture, Food Security & Technologies Mount Kenya University
2019 GIST Tech-I First Prize Milken Institute
2019 World Food Preservation Center Overall Winner — Biologically-Based Pest Control Technologies Milken Institute
2022 Milken-Motsepe Prize in AgriTech Finalist Milken-Motsepe Prize
2023 ISC3 Innovation Challenge — Sustainable Chemistry & Agriculture Special Regional Impact Award — Winner ISC3

Contact

Get in Touch

Talk to us about products, partnerships or distribution. Call 0723431172 or visit us in Thika Industrial Area.