President Ruto Promises to Buy a Chapati-Making Machine to Make 1 Million Chapatis Per Day to Boost Governor Sakajaβs Dishi na County School Feeding Programme.
Ruto Promise Fact-check: Can a machine make one million chapatis a day?
Based on Rutoβs estimate, the machine would need to produce 41,667 chapatis per hour, 694 chapatis per minute, and 12 chapatis per second.
If this was possible, then it would cut on the labour and cooking time of the meal.
Assuming one packet of wheat flour produces 25 chapatis.
For perspective, making 25 chapatis typically requires two kilograms of wheat flour, a half-liter of cooking oil, water, and a heat source.
To produce one million chapatis, one would require approximately 40,000 packets of wheat flour and 20,000 litres of cooking oil.
Assuming one litre of salad oil is about Sh250, then you would need Sh5m to purchase 20,000 litres of cooking oil per day.
A 2 kg packet of unga costs approximately Sh160. Add the cost of purchasing 40,000 packets of unga to the total of Sh6,400,000.
For just unga and cooking oil, this would cost you approximately Sh11.4 million per day and at least Sh2b billion annually, making it more expensive than the Dishi na County program, which operates on a Sh1.7 billion annual budget.
The figures so far exclude water and labor.
