NILE AGRO INDUSTRIE - Jinja, Uganda

Nile Agro Value Chain is an agribusiness startup that connects a range of actors and activities from the production of an agricultural product in the field to its final consumption. The venture links the different independent business organizations through vertical integration, involving them in food processing, packaging, storage, transport, and distribution. Nile Agro Value Chain also works with traditional value chains, using spot markets to involve a large number of small retailers and producers. The startup achieves its mission in agriculture value chain through agricultural mechanization, traditional farming, farm portfolio investments, interstate trade of agricultural commodities, online trade of food produce through its online marketplace, aggregation of farmers into a  

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multipurpose cooperative society, linking farmers to off-takers, contract farming, food processing, extension services, and collaboration with different stakeholders in the agriculture value chain in Uganda, Africa, and beyond. At present, the startup is working with over 1,200 farmers in Ibanda District, organized under their farmers' groups and cooperative society.