Indeed, the Company has continued to procure more wooden poles even as the use of concrete poles increases. In the last financial year, we procured 165,976 wooden poles from local farmers and companies compared to 64,049 concrete poles purchased during the same period. ALSO READ: Design of Africa’s largest solar plant in Garissa gets readyDuring the current financial year, we have so far bought 192,374 wooden poles and 59,460 concrete poles. Under this phase, we are buying 159,604 wooden poles and 159,598 concrete poles. Replacement of wooden poles with concrete ones is advised by those conditions and therefore concrete poles are supplements rather than substitutes.

Source: Standard Digital May 05, 2017 17:03 UTC