Established in 1972 by a company named East African Acceptances as an Estate Management Division (EMD), Tropical Kenya was founded to oversee their lendings to agriculture.

By 1982 EMD managed and financed a substantial part of the coffee plantations in Kenya and began expansion into other crops such as tea, ranching, sugar, dairy products and horticulture.

In 1984 Standard Chartered Bank acquired sole ownership and renamed the division Standard Chartered Estate Management Limited.

In April 1999 Standard Chartered Bank sold its share capital to Neumann Gruppe GmbH in Hamburg, Germany. The company was then renamed "SCEM Farm Management Limited". For better identification with its mother group the company's name has been changed to "Tropical Farm Management (Kenya) Ltd." in January 2004

Today Tropical Kenya is a unique management company of high repute based 50 kilometres north of Nairobi in a town called Thika. We play an important role in successful farm management and transfer of farming technology and know-how. Being the largest and most experienced farm management company in East Africa, we presently manage about 70 farms, most of which are coffee and tea plantations ranging from 100-2000 acres in size. In total about 15,000 acres are managed in coffee and tea growing regions of Kenya.