23 May 2015

Paul Nyende, AgriNet Uganda Ltd

Paul Nyende is a Founder and Managing Director of AgriNet Uganda Ltd. Before retiring to private sector, Paul worked with various government and non-government organizations and projects for over 10 years, in the field of agricultural research, rural development and livelihood programmes. With a Master of Science in Agriculture degree from Makerere University, specializing in land and water use management, Paul has also acquired vast hands on experience in Good Agricultural Practices, agribusiness and marketing, farmer institutional development, capacity development and training, Participatory Development, Information, Communication and Networking and Project Monitoring and Evaluation.

As Managing Director of AgriNet Uganda Ltd, Paul runs a number of businesses including a food and animal feed processing plant in Tororo that produces high quality branded maize flour and animal feeds, a grain trading and supply chain management business with over 300 agents managing satellite collection points in the north, east and western Uganda, a web-based agricultural market intelligence service linked to mobile phones; and Oolux solar lantern distributorship business with Antenna Foundation Technologies, a Swiss company.



Paul has great experience working with big buyers and processors including Uganda Breweries, Agroways (U), Sigma Feeds Kenya Ltd and Kisenyi Traders among others sourcing various commodities including sorghum, maize, soyabean, ground nuts and cassava among others.


Paul’s dream and vision to a establish the largest and reliable network for market intelligence and agricultural commodity trade in East Africa and the western world
 

Contact Paul for business:
AgriNet Uganda Ltd.
Kampala, Uganda.
Mob: +256 772 495 950, +256 757 495 950.
Email: pnyende@agrinetug.net
Website:www.agrinetug.net

16 May 2015

Agribusiness Directory East Africa

The first edition of AgaSha Agribusiness Directory East Africa 2015 is now out. It consists of the five East African Community member state countries (Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda and Burundi) in addition to Ethiopia. Get details on this website: www.agasha.com

In this edition, AgaSha group team collected, verified and validated contact information for different key agribusinesses in the region. They were categorized by:
1) Agro-input dealers such as seed suppliers, tractor dealers, greenhouse and irrigation companies;

2) Crop Producers, Processors & Exporters for different crops like Coffee, Tea, Cocoa, Cashewnuts, Maize, beans, fruits, vegetables, flowers, tree farming e.t.c;

3) Livestock Producers & Processors especially dairy farming, poultry, piggery, honey & beekeeping;

4) Supporting Businesses in Agriculture like Finance service providers, insurance companies in agribusiness, agribusiness consultants, business service providers, market information providers, packaging companies, biogas dealers, renewable energy dealers e.t.c;

5) Organizations and Government Agencies like NGOs in Agriculture & CBOs, youth organizations, organizations in environment and conservations, government ministries and programmes in agriculture e.t.c.

The business listings consist of the business/organization name, contact person, location, phone & email contact, website and brief description about their products and services. This information can facilitate you to get connected to reliable networks in the sector, save time of searching contacts using different sources and thus reducing on costs of running a business.

View the directory @ www.issuu.com/agribusiness or download pdf version via Scribd Agribusiness
A searchable pdf version is available, email directoryagribusiness@gmail.com for details.