Salim Saleh boosts maize processing
Aug 18, 2009
PRESIDENTIAL adviser Gen. Caleb Akandwanaho (Salim Saleh) has entered a joint venture with millers in Nakaseke district to start processing maize.
By Frederick Kiwanuka
PRESIDENTIAL adviser Gen. Caleb Akandwanaho (Salim Saleh) has entered a joint venture with millers in Nakaseke district to start processing maize.
Saleh’s Namunkekeera Agro-processing Industries and the Nakaseke Grain Millers Association planted 1,000 acres of maize under the two-year joint venture.
Saleh said his firm would provide maize to the millers on credit, which they would have to pay within 40 days.
The millers will process the maize into quality products meeting international standards, he added.
Saleh said the new development was part of his vision of creating a complete cycle of land owners, utilisers, producers and processors.
“Today marks the end of the cycle. First we had the land owner, then the utilisers and then producers. We are lucky that we have the millers who at the same time are going to distribute,†Saleh said.
He said the price of sh670 per kilogramme at which he will be supplying the maize, would enable the consumers to pay less for the flour. The price will be reviewed each season.
Saleh added that this would increase food security in the country.
He said his firm would distribute 40 tonnes of maize seeds worth sh64m to the farmers in the next season.
Last month, Saleh entered a sh600m partnership with 248 commercial farmers for the mass production of maize.
Under the partnership, he agreed to lease 1,000 acres of his land to the farmers.
Each of the farmers is allocated five acres of land from which they are expected to earn sh8m per season.
Saleh’s firm will also give the farmers credit facilities in terms of tractor services, fertilisers and pesticides.
PRESIDENTIAL adviser Gen. Caleb Akandwanaho (Salim Saleh) has entered a joint venture with millers in Nakaseke district to start processing maize.
Saleh’s Namunkekeera Agro-processing Industries and the Nakaseke Grain Millers Association planted 1,000 acres of maize under the two-year joint venture.
Saleh said his firm would provide maize to the millers on credit, which they would have to pay within 40 days.
The millers will process the maize into quality products meeting international standards, he added.
Saleh said the new development was part of his vision of creating a complete cycle of land owners, utilisers, producers and processors.
“Today marks the end of the cycle. First we had the land owner, then the utilisers and then producers. We are lucky that we have the millers who at the same time are going to distribute,†Saleh said.
He said the price of sh670 per kilogramme at which he will be supplying the maize, would enable the consumers to pay less for the flour. The price will be reviewed each season.
Saleh added that this would increase food security in the country.
He said his firm would distribute 40 tonnes of maize seeds worth sh64m to the farmers in the next season.
Last month, Saleh entered a sh600m partnership with 248 commercial farmers for the mass production of maize.
Under the partnership, he agreed to lease 1,000 acres of his land to the farmers.
Each of the farmers is allocated five acres of land from which they are expected to earn sh8m per season.
Saleh’s firm will also give the farmers credit facilities in terms of tractor services, fertilisers and pesticides.