Mukwano Agriculture Project
Mukwano has embarked on developing strategic partnerships with the farming communities. These activities which include extension services and a guaranteed market for farmers’ produce, will positively impact poverty alleviation. Currently, Mukwano is the largest buyer of cottonseed, sunflower, soya beans, sesame seeds and green tea from out-growers in Uganda and has commissioned a modern oil mill in Lira – Uganda, in close proximity of the farm locations
The Group also has substantial investments in commercial crop farming in Masindi Port of The Masindi District In Uganda. Cultivation blocks for crops such as maize, Soya and Sunflower have been created in a total area exceeding 17,000 acres.
State of art, modern farm equipment is deployed to ensure mechanised farming methods to achieve optimum yields thereby ensuring high volume and value efficiencies.
General information about Mukwano agriculture group including history, challenges and future plans
Mukwano Group of Companies has a part of its operations in sunflower oil extraction with a plant in Lira. It was set up in October 2007 and has been operating profitably. Currently the plant has an output of 24,500 tons per annum. The national demand is currently estimated at 70,000 tons.
Currently numbering in excess of 45,000 out growers, Mukwano has firm plans to increase this number to 60,000 out growers spanning a total cultivation area close to 200,000 acres by end of 2011.
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July 2010 Northern Uganda’s new agricultural chapter 
There is a ray of hope now for people who want to engage in agriculture in northern Uganda. Civil strife has steadily declined in the recent years, especially in the Acholi region, and the
internally displaced people’s camps are now
on the rubbish heap of our country’s history,
as people return to their homes to live normal
lives. Fortunately, their return is greeted with
a new opportunity to make money as farmers.
The land is fertile, the climate is generally favourable,
and a newly found friend, Mukwano
Group of Companies, has come up with a new
idea to do business with the farmers.
Mukwano has brought along more than Shs24b, according to their Chief Executive Officer, Mr Tony Gadhoke, and sunk it in developing the cultivation of sunflower, soy bean, and maize in the Lango region and eventually in the rest of northern Uganda. more about this article... |