Multinational fisheries across Africa
Mr. Denis Abura, an agricultural expert has various fish ponds in Uganda, Kenya, Botswana. His company exports fish to many countries and also supplies to local markets.
Exporting chillies from Rwanda to Europe
Afri Foods, a horticultural company in Rwanda, was started in 2019 by Sakina Usengimana. It exports crops such as chilli, avocado, eggplant and passion fruit to Germany, the Netherlands, France, the UK, Belgium and Dubai
Ugandan soya bean business grows from side hustle to sizeable operation
Charles Nsubuga is the founder of Sesaco, a soya bean processing company producing products such as soya porridge powder, soya milk powder, soya yoghurt and soya ice cream. According to Nsubuga, Sesaco’s main customers are nutrition-conscious people and those who prefer soya as a non-caffeinated alternative to tea and coffee. He is also targeting people with busy lives as most of Sesaco’s products require only the addition of water.
Tanzania: Cashew nut entrepreneur sets up local processing for export-led business
YYTZ was founded in 2016 by Fahad Awadh and his father after they saw a large opportunity to increase the local processing capacity for cashews, 90% of which had historically been exported from Tanzania raw in the shell at low prices. YYTZ sources its nuts from smallholder farmers. After procurement, it brings the cashews to Zanzibar to process them into a variety of retail-ready products, including roasted cashews and cashew butter, for the East African as well as international market under YYTZ’s consumer brand, More Than Cashews.
Kenyan nutritious instant meal company targets the mass market
As Kenyan consumers become more health conscious, NatureLock, a Nairobi-based instant meal company, is looking to address the gap in the market for quick, healthy food at a price point affordable to the mass market. “We felt our purpose was to commercially develop a manufacturing process to sell healthy, convenient and affordable food to as many people as possible,” explains Tei Mukunya Oundo, CEO of the company founded in 2020.
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