TOP 16 COMMERCIAL AGRO FORESTRY INVESTMENT OPPORTUNITIES IN UGANDA

[Albert KUNIHIRA]

TOP 16 COMMERCIAL AGRO FORESTRY INVESTMENT OPPORTUNITIES IN UGANDA:

 

Greetings from Greening Uganda fellow Ugandans & Happy New Year 2025. Eighty percent of Uganda's land is arable but only 35% is being cultivated. In FY 2023/24,  The agriculture sector contributed 24.7% to Uganda's GDP in 2023/24, up from 24.1% in 2022/23.   In FY 2022/23, agriculture accounted for about 24% of GDP, and 35% of export earnings.  The Uganda Bureau Of Statistics estimates that about 68% of Uganda’s working population is employed in agriculture. 

DID YOU KNOW? According to Africa Development Bank President Adewumi Adesina, Agriculture will produce Africa’s future millionaires and billionaires! Below, we present Top 12 Commercial Agro Forestry Investment Opportunities in Uganda.

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COMMERCIAL HASS AVOCADO GROWING:

Hass avocado farming is worth everybody's investment who thinks farming as a business regardless of how much your job pays you since it's less risky, very low cost input, low maintenance and ready available market worldwide, any investment in Hass Avocado Growing automatically becomes your Pension. 12,730 ACRES of Hass Avocado Planted in 4 years, for details follow https://greeningugandagroup.com/Products/Hass_Ovaccado_Cba OR https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.1457100674456118&type=3 AND https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.720120324820827&type=3

 

COMMERCIAL COFFEE GROWING IN UGANDA: 

September 2023–August 2024 Uganda exported 6.39 million bags of coffee, worth US\$1.35 billion, which was a 5.25% increase in quantity and 46.96% increase in value compared to the previous year. Did you know you can earn 12,000,000 Ugx (Twelve Million Uganda Shillings) per season from an acre of well looked after or managed coffee plantation, for more details, visit  https://greeningugandagroup.com/Products/Coffee_Growing  OR visit us at https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.520727844760077&type=3 VARIETY CLONAL ROBUSTA CWD-R, COFFEE WILT RESISTANT

COMMERCIAL COCOA GROWING IN UGANDA:

Cocoa is ranked among the high-value export commodities that offer great economic opportunities for increasing farmers’ incomes and foreign exchange earnings for the country. Statistics show that the production of cocoa and export earnings from the commodity have been steadily increasing. 

In FY 2013/14, NAADS has distributed over 20 million cocoa seedlings contributing to the increased production of cocoa by 9%.  Cocoa is Uganda’s fourth-biggest commodity export after coffee, tea and fish. Cocoa production in Uganda has seen a steady increase over the last few years. Cocoa is a perennial crop that responds well in rainy tropical areas, with a maximum annual average of 30 – 32ºC. It thrives under shades and in areas with annual rainfall between 1,500mm to 2,000mm. In 2023, Uganda exports of Cocoa beans, whole or broken, raw or roasted was $140,708.69K and quantity 47,469,500Kg, for more info, visit https://wits.worldbank.org/trade/comtrade/en/country/UGA/year/2023/tradeflow/Exports/partner/ALL/product/180100

Cocoa beans, whole or broken, raw or roasted imports by country in 2023

COMMERCIAL TROPICAL APPLES GROWING:

Growing Tropical Apples in Uganda through research has become a success story, they can grow anywhere in Uganda, currently they are being grown commercially and domestically for home consumption. A number of clients have planted them with good testimonies and results, except for the semi arid cattle corridors in Uganda. The Tropical Apples exist in 2 Species e.g. Anna Anna (Purple) and Golden Dorset (Golden Green), you can go for commercial plantation or domestic for Home consumption. For more details, visit us at https://www.greeningugandagroup.com/Products/Apple-Growing  OR https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.2220018081497703&type=3 peruse our 90 pages guide book of Commercial Tropical Apples Growing

 

COMMERCIAL SEMIL34 AVOCADO GROWING:

 

SEMIL 34 AVOCADO VARIETY, GOOD FOR DOMESTIC AND EXPORT MARKET & GOOD FOR YOUR HOME! 

It is a hybrid avocado variety with “Green uneven skin and inside it is dark yellow. It’s the favourite variety of the Dominican chefs, as it can be used in all types of preparations. Its taste and texture easily combine with almost all other flavors.” 

 

Semil 34, ever since it was introduced in Uganda in 1990, 31 years down the road, it has performed so well across the Country. Semil 34, is Drought Tolerant, Resistant to Diseases, High Yielding and thrive with very little care. For more details on Semil34 follow us on https://www.greeningugandagroup.com/Products/Semil_34_Avocado_Variety INBOX FOR FASTER RESPONSE!

 

COMMERCIAL PASSION FRUITS GROWING:

For and to serious farmers, passion fruits are money makers, a well managed passion fruits orchard will give you between 5,000,000 & 7,000,000ugx per months on a scale of 1 acre well managed. For more details visit https://greeningugandagroup.com/Products/Passion-Fruit-Growing-In-Uganda OR

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COMMERCIAL PINEAPPLE GROWING IN UGANDA:

To establish 1 acre of pineapples, you need 15,000 or 20,000 suckers. The 1^st Harvest comes at 2 years, assuming out of the 15,000 suckers you planted have 13,000 have yielded, and you sell each piece at 1000ugx as flat price, you will earn 13,000,000ugx, for more details visit https://greeningugandagroup.com/Products/Pineapple-Growing-In-Uganda OR

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COMMERCIAL GINGER GROWING:

A well managed and well yielded Ginger, will give you a minimum of 7 tons, assume you sell 1kg at 3,000ugx that will give you 21,000,000ug per acre after 9 months, for more details visit https://greeningugandagroup.com/Products/Export-Commercial-Ginger-Farming OR https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.613293258836868&type=3

 

COMMERCIAL MANGOES GROWING:

In Uganda we have 5 major commercial mango varieties, that have made farmers smile to the bank, these are Kate or Takataka, Tommy Atkins, Kent, Kakule & Apple mangoes. The 5 are reasonably resistant to the Oriental Fruit Fly disease. The 5^th one would be Bire, it does very well in Luwero, but highly susceptible to the fruit fly disease. For more details visit https://greeningugandagroup.com/Products/Mango-Growing-In-Uganda

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COMMERCIAL GONJA GROWING:

GONJA/PLANTAIN BANANAS, The multpurpose and Multi million Banana Industry, for details visit

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.236566912060274&type=3 Did you know 90% of the gonja consumed in Uganda comes from DR-Congo

 

COMMERCIAL CASHEW NUT GROWING:

Commercial Cashew Nuts growing has been re-introduced in Uganda starting with Financial year 2022/2023 by the Government of Uganda. If you leave in the Cattle Corridor where nothing else can grow, please do not let the land go idle, make it productive with Cashew Nuts Growing. As the world was grappling with the COVID19 pandemic, Tanzania exported Cashew nuts worth 468US$ Million US Dollars, for details on commercial Cashew Nuts growing, kindly visit https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.827830020596945&type=3

 

COMMERCIAL MACADAMIA GROWING:

Macadamia Nut, is the most expensive nut in the whole world, 1kg going at 1,380Kshs that is the equivalent of 44,160Ugx. The macadamia nut has been introduced in Uganda, and approximately 2,500 acres have been established. The biggest farms are in Mityana 600 acres and about  800 acres in Kyenjojo. Macadamia nuts plants are resilient, and they can thrive in bad weather, and they are drought tolerant. In 2022, over 6,000 macadamia farmers earned a whooping 4 billion Kenya shillings, that is approximately 128 Billion Uganda shs.

 

COMMERCIAL GROWING OF LIME & ORANGE:

Lime is a scarce citrus fruit in Uganda, fetching high prices locally and export, similarly, Ugandan oranges have a ready market since the opening of the Teso Fruit Juice Factory, equally theres huge demand for Ugandan oranges in Kenya, for more details visit https://greeningugandagroup.com/Products/Lime-Growing-In-Uganda OR

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COMMERCIAL GUAVA GROWING:

Commercial Guava Growing is slowly picking up in Uganda for both local and export, for more details visit https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.520749984757863&type=3

 

 

HOME FRUITS GROWING:

At Greening Uganda, we mind about home nutrition balance, if you require any seedlings or planting materials for your domestic consumption, kindly visit us at https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.1798934936939355&type=3

 

WOODLOTS OR COMMERCIAL TIMBER PRODUCTION:

At Greening Uganda  we also take care of Timber or Wood lots, for more details on Clonal Eucalyptus growing, kindly visit us at https://greeningugandagroup.com/Products/Clonal-Eucalyptus OR https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.518036461695882&type=3

 

We also have Melia Vulkensis, it matures at 9 years with red mahogany timber, it is drought and termite tolerant

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DELIVERY ACROSS THE COUNTRY/REGION:

Wherever you’re in Uganda and in the East Africa region, we will deliver the seedlings. In the past 6 years we have delivered over 10 million millions across Uganda and the region, for more details, visit

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CERTIFIED TREE SEEDS:

If you would like to start a tree nursery business or establish an onsite forest tree nursery, we will help you get the best certified, indigenous tree seeds, improved seeds, hybrid tree seeds, medicinal tree seeds, herbs seeds, ornamental trees seeds at reasonable prices, for more details visit https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.904605649705626&type=3

 

AGROFORESTRY/FARMING LAND ACQUISITION:

 If you’re looking for land for long term Agriculture Investments, e.g. Coffee, Avocado, Mangoes, Ginger, Macadamia farming, please do not hesitate to contact us. We have encumbrance free titled land in Mityana, Mubende, Kiboga, Kyenjojo, Kyegegwa, Kagadi, Kakumiro, Kibaale, Hoima, Masindi, Kyankwanzi etc. Cost per acre of arable land is 4 to 5m. For Available pieces of land for Agriculture, visit https://www.greeningugandagroup.com/land-for-commercial-agriculture-in-uganda

 

In case you need more information e.g. crop Cost Benefit Analysis CBA, business plans, farm cost estimations, where it has not been provided, kindly contact us. For details on other products and services, kindly visit https://greeningugandagroup.com/Services See attached seeds and seedlings price-lists.

 

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Simon Peter

Research & Business Development Manager

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