Raphael Wainaina serves as the Farm Manager at Maakiou Estate, providing strategic leadership across a diversified agricultural portfolio. With over 16 years of experience in commercial agriculture, he oversees integrated operations in coffee production, dairy enterprise management, apiculture, and avocado farming. His approach optimizes resource allocation, strengthens risk resilience, and enhances estate-wide productivity and profitability.
Raphael leads structured field operations, labour planning, crop nutrition programs, and post-harvest processing while ensuring alignment with sustainability and certification requirements. He applies key industry performance metrics to guide data-driven decision-making in yield efficiency, processing conversion rates, labour utilization, and quality grading.
He is committed to capacity development, fostering technical growth among field teams, and driving operational excellence through continuous improvement initiatives and stakeholder engagement.
Raphael holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Agriculture (First Class Honours) from Egerton University and a Certificate in Coffee Farm Management from the Kenya Coffee College, underpinning his expertise in modern agronomy and estate management.