Ubuntu Farms strives to solve the problem of lack of access to fresh vegetables in South Sudan by producing it. They use climate smart and nutrition sensitive innovations for enhanced food crops production. E.g., drip irrigation and growing drought and pest tolerant crops that require minimal application of chemicals.

$800,000 To scale vegetable and maize production, recruit 500 outgrower farmers and establish a milling factory for maize processing.

Joy Ladu

Hagana seeks to Increase the capacity of honey production among rural farming communities of South Sudan and increase the quantity of raw materials procured from the farmers to increase the farmers income leading to better and dignified living conditions.

USD 695,000 Recruit 2000 farmers from 2023 and make bee hives available to farmers specifically women who are denied the opportunity to venture into beekeeping. Operational and equipment costs.

Matata Safi

The team works to enhance farmer’s knowledge and skills on good agricultural practices while strengthening women groups in input and output marketing to create clear production marketing pathways.

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Robert Okumu Hakim

The innovation increases income level for farmers through production of pure natural honey, bee wax and propolis as well as building their capacity in bee and crop farming with adherence to environmental conservation practices and other related livelihood activities.

USD 500,000

Edward Ugo

Kanybek makes bread from the mixture of wheat and Maize flour. This creates a business opportunity for the local maize farmers to increase their production and sell. Making bread from mixed maize and wheat flour increases demand for maize and reduces the import of whaetflour.

USD 150,000

Godfrey Kape

Through an out grower farming scheme, the team works with out growers to scale up production especially in poultry farming. By increasing production they improve farmers incomes and consequently livelihoods. The group is focused on strengthening out growers as more people are returning from refugee camps to settle into their productive areas.

USD 1,000,000 Scale out of commercial poultry and cereal production

Nyikole James

"Innovates Agriculture for Wealth Creation" Green farms is an agribusiness company situated in South Sudan, dealing in large scale farming with geographical coverage of over 52,000 hectares of land and is leading produce of white sorghum, semsem , maize and others crops in South Sudan.

USD 150,000 To pilot the win to win business model. To purchase and install drip center pivot Irrigation system for large scale farming. To purchase new tractors, tools, implements and harvester machines .

Thon Simon

Crisgrow is solving the challenge of limited access to healthy organic food, low markets for avocado, and high food waste and losses for avocado farmers. Using a circular model, the aim is to create sustainable access to quality organic food for households, jobs, and income for avocado farmers.

USD 500,000 As equity, debt or both.

Kiberu Godfrey

Awelo millers provides market to sunflower farmers in Oyam district by buying and processing sunflower seeds to produce vegetable oil and other products. They also supporting the same farmers by securing partnerships with input suppliers to sell inputs to these farmers at a subsidized cost. The company helps reduce the high adulteration of vegetable cooking oils on the market and uses the by products make animal feeds and the soft stalk makes bar soap.

USD 100,000

James Ebuk

Emata provides farmers with access to affordable digital loans so farmers can finally make productive investments in their farms and a better life. Emata loans unlock critical investments in better inputs, improved cattle-breeds, and irrigation; all driving much-needed productivity increases. Emata loans increase farmer productivity up to 70% & their cooperative-based model strengthens, grows, and formalizes agricultural value chains which in turn drives added-value processing, economic activity, and exports.

Bram Van de Bosch

Smart Foods is an innovative food processing company that is committed to innovation and the provision of trusted nutritious products, processed from the finest ground nuts, fish and soybean powder so as to enhance the quality of life for the health-conscious and vulnerable consumer while providing an expanded opportunity for the farmers.

200,000 USD To scale the plant based yoghurt innovation and the high protein rich product innovations.

Martin Ssali

Omia Agribusiness distributes Seeds, fertilizers, Agro Chemicals, Farm Tools and Equipment to smallholder farmers. The Service is blended with free Agricultural Extension Services and Linkages to Markets for the farmers Produce.

USD 500,000 Mainly for working capital (Stocking Agro Inputs, Veterinary Drugs and Animal Feeds in our 11 Outlets across the country. Buying back Agro Produce from farmers to be sold under our brand Omia Foods) Putting up a feed processing factory and with time a seed processing plant.

Iganachi Razaki Omia

Farm Reap offers ready to eat, wholesome and affordable foods while reducing hunger and malnutrition. They process and sell drinking yoghurt to mainly children but are now diversifying into other specialty yoghurts: Greek and fruit and healthy foods such as chia seeds and granola.

$100,000

Sylvia Natunkunda

Aflakiosk is a mobile laboratory that provides quality testing services to all maize markets and suppliers in the country. It provides a fast, affordable, accurate, and free way to measure maize quality including quantitative levels of aflatoxin, allowing traders and farmers to determine the quality of their grain and potentially access premium markets while reducing consumption of aflatoxin-contaminated maize products affecting humans and livestock.

USD 100,000

Benjamin Byinshi

Ironji uses a hybrid model (human smart processes and intelligent technology) to enable goods movers to easily get connected to nearby truck drivers to move their goods fast by reducing the transport price by 50%.

Q2-2023: Raise USD 250,000, handle 100 trucks/day, generate $330k monthly ($4M yearly). Q1-2025: Raise USD 2,500,000, handle 1,000 trucks/day, generate $4M monthly ($50M yearly)

Clet Mwunguzi

ZEAN is a well established Agro-processing company which devotes its effort on reducing post-harvest losses by producing banana chips. Our main objective is to create a bridge between farmers and the market to get farmers out of the poverty trap.

USD 100,000

Angelique Nimukuze