Afrihealth improves lives by raising the value of livestock, providing smallholder farmers access to quality and affordable veterinary and animal nutrition products through a network of hundreds of local agrovet shops in Eastern Uganda.
Livestock constitutes 3.8% OF GDP in the whole of Uganda.
Eastern Uganda has a total of 11 million chickens, 2.6m goats, 2.5m cattle, 400,000 sheep, 700k pigs, 300k ducks, and 200k turkey.
The original business model at Paniel Meat Processing was for 100% of the animals to be raised by Rwandan smallholder farmers. The “high class” problem in the last year is that demand increased so quickly that the only reasonable path was to build out some in-house animal production, starting with chickens. A hatchery for day-old chicks, six chicken houses, and an abattoir. Enough...
Ziweto Enterprise now manufacturers animal feed concentrates in Lilongwe, Malawi, helping lower the cost of animal feeds for smallholder farmers in Malawi, making livestock more affordable to more farmers.
From the founders of Geossy comes Amuria Honey, a new honey processor based in the Amuria District of Uganda.
Most of us are used to savings and investments being the realm of banks and brokers. But for the masses in Uganda (and Sub-Saharan Africa) the banks are too far and too expensive and the local currencies a poor way to save. Instead, savings often take the form of bricks to build a home or a few chickens to feed the children or now with Agro Supply, seeds for the next planting season...