Investment Portfolio Uganda
| Investment Portfolio - Uganda |
Bee Natural Uganda Bee Natural Uganda Limited is a honey business located in Arua in North-West Uganda. It collects honey from farmers groups and associations across the West Nile region before processing, packaging and selling it across the East African market. With excellent processing machinery and location in the Ugandan bee corridor, the company produces honey at a quality comparable with international standards. Our investment has helped the company to purchase a processing plant and provision of working capital. To this end, the business is will provide employment and a market for farmers in a deprived part of the country recovering from years of war. The business expects to buy honey from approximately 1000 farmers in 2008 and 2000 farmers in 2009. The improved hives and bee colonies, together with training, provided by the company allow farmers to increase their yield between 3 and 5 fold, with minimal extra work. These increased yields could increase each small farmer's honey related income from $26 per year to well over $100. www.beenaturalproducts.com Biyinzika Enterprises  Biyinzika Enterprises Limited is a large poultry business located in the Seeta area, about 16km east of Kampala. It rears parent stock for the production of broiler (chicken meat) and layer day-old chicks. The business is also involved in commodity trading, the provision of cereal and grain storage facilities to third parties and production of specific food products for World Food Programme (WFP) emergency food distribution. Our investment has been used to finance the expansion of the existing poultry operations plus setting up of a new commercial broiler farm and processing plant, all on a recently acquired 100 acre site in Mukono district. The business provides employment to about 200 people and is purchases maize and soya from a substantial number of smallholder farmers in Uganda to enable it to meet its chicken feed requirements and relief food production for WFP. www.biyinzika.com
Coetzee Natural Products
NASECO
Victoria Seeds |
Coetzee Natural Products (U) Ltd (CNP) is involved in the business of organic agricultural processing and trading. It is an associate of the Coetzee Natural Products Group based in South Africa which is one of the leading exporters of organic herbal and medicinal plant products in Southern Africa. CNP started trading organic vanilla in Uganda in 2005 and the business successfully obtained full organic certification with BCS of Nuremburg in Germany for both the EU and USA markets. 
NASECO is one of the larger seed companies operating in Uganda. It is located in Hoima district in Western Uganda and produces and trades in hybrid rice and maize seed. Additional products include groundnuts, sorghum, soya beans, beans and sunflower. Seed are marketed to stockists and numerous NGOs operating in Northern Uganda, Southern Sudan and Eastern Congo. 
Victoria Seeds with a processing and distribution site in Gulu, Northern Uganda, is another significant seed company operating in Uganda. It is located in Kampala's industrial area and principally caters to smallholder farmers in Uganda. It also services the seed requirements for International Organisations resettling displaced people in Northern Uganda and supplies seed to organisations operating in South Sudan and the DR Congo.