Eldoret family turns maize cobs into jet fuel additive

How much economic value can one derive from maize cobs? To most small-holder maize growing households, there is little else they can use them for once the grain has been shelled. More often, they are discarded, used as cooking fuel or as aminal feeds.

To Indubhai Patel and his family, however, maize cobs are a valuable raw material that has seen them make a name in Kenya’s industrial sector.