From the founders of Geossy comes Amuria Honey, a new honey processor based in the Amuria District of Uganda.
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From the founders of Geossy comes Amuria Honey, a new honey processor based in the Amuria District of Uganda.
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...
Back in 2020 when the pandemic began, Paniel Meat Processing found itself with an internal logistics system covering the major cities in Rwanda, but excess capacity due to the lockdowns. To keep the trucks busy, they spun out Paniel Transport & Logistics. Creating new companies to solve internal problems was not new to Herve Tuyishime, founder/CEO. He had done the same with livestock...
Which of the dozens of fast-growing companies in the portfolio grew the most in 2021? There are two ways to answer that question. Agro Supply, by percentage Measured by percentage, Agro Supply grew the fastest, from $217,000 of of revenue in 2020 to just over $1 million in 2021. Nearly five-fold for the year. This is a company with a unique model for smallholder farmers to invest in agriculture...
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...