Numa Feeds Limited is a Nominee for the 2019 Uganda Responsible Investment Award (URI Award) slated for 22nd November 2019 during a High Level Uganda Responsible Investment Summit and Award Ceremony. The 2019 Uganda Responsible Investment Summit and Award Ceremony is organised by Public Opinions and Office of the Minister of State for Privatisation and Investment. To be honoured in appreciation of its contribution towards attainment of Uganda Vision 2040 and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals in Uganda.
Numa Feeds Limited is a medium, rural-based agribusiness company located in Kabwohe/Itendero Town,Sheema District, in western Uganda. It was founded in 1995 and officially registered as a limited company in 1997. Owned by two shareholders, Mr. Robert Matsiko and Mrs. Mercy Matsiko, Numa Feeds Ltd started as a feed processing company and has since graduated to processing of grains for human consumption.
As grain processors intended for human consumption, we handle every grain with utmost care and attention through our quality assurance standards and procedures. By incorporating the direct contacts we have with our partners from seed to production to processing, we offer a complete package for every customer. Numa offers an array of products from millet, cassava, maize, soybean and amaranth. Our sales outlets are located in Kabwohe, Mbarara, Ntinda – Kampala and Kyengera.
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Impact of Numa to the
farming community
- We have provided planting materials to about 150 active farmer groups averaging a membership of 25 males and females.
- We have provided ready market for their supply at competitive prices.The income levels of many households in the area have improved and farming is now pursued as a source of livelihood.
- We have extended advisory services to the different farmer groups on agronomic practices to ensure better harvests. We have also skilled them in post-harvest handling.
- We have trained change agents who help us mobilise the existing farmer groups.
- We have supported initiatives such as Village Savings and Loans Association(VSLA) alongside equipping them with Village Saving Kits.
Our Mission
To provide quality nutritious grain products through value addition to raw materials sourced from the local community
Our Vision
To provide high quality grain products to improve livelihoods
HISTORY OF NUMA FEEDS
Numas journey started in 1995 when Robert Matsiko was retrenched from the Ministry of Agriculture where he worked as a field assistant officer. At only 27, Robert did not despair; instead saw this as an opportunity to pursue his idea of value addition of local grains like maize and millet for human consumption and their by-products for animal and poultry feeds.
Mr. Robert Matsiko’s entrepreneurship journey started way back in 1995 after he was retrenched from the Ministry of Agriculture, where he had worked as a poultry assistant for five years. He was given a package of 140,000/= that was worth a bicycle by then.
After being home for about a month, an idea struck his mind – there were no firms processing animal and poultry feeds in Western Uganda; everything was coming from NUVITA in Jinja. At the same time, when he was in Kampala he had eaten millet which had sand in it. This got him thinking of making quality flour from the millet that was in abundance in Sheema without market.He then talked to a friend, Mr. Nuwarimpa, and the two joined hands to form NUMA (an acronym from the names ‘Nuwarimpa’ and ‘Matsiko’). He then fabricated the first feeds machine and later a millet machine.
They hired a small room behind his workshop belonging to Mr.David Nuwagaba. Together, they only produced 100kgs everynight, which they would market the following day. After1 year, his friend
Nuwarimpa decided to specialize in his fabrication and left him in food processing.
Mr. Matsiko then decided to transfer the business to nearby town called Kemikyera and later kabwohe town where he installed simple machines in a wooden shelter with a loan from Uganda Gatsby trust –an organization used to bring together small scale millers Unfortunately, one year later, the then factory premises went ablaze and most of the materials perished in it.
He was supported by his wife through her small secretarial bureau savings and friends and registered the NumaFeeds Ltd as Liability Company to be able to get some loans from Centenary Bank since he couldn’t get enough from Muhame Village Bank.
Two years later as Mr. Matsiko was travelling to Kampala in a bus, he was given chloroform and found himself in Mengo Hospital. All his money had been stolen.
After these setbacks he was at a crossroads.
1997
Continuation
In spite of the above setbacks, Mr. Matsiko did not grieve. He attended training in entrepreneurship skills with Enterprise Uganda in 2004. He didn’t have a specific vision, but after training he turned his idea into a vision. “He learnt a lot from Enterprise Uganda. The Buddy groups, continuous workshops, and networking all did it for him.”
In 2006, together with other 4 Ugandans, was nominated to attend the 10th Summit of Young Entrepreneurship on a ticket of persistence where he learnt a lot of skills and networking.
In 2009, he was invited to attend an executive programme on inclusive Agribusiness fighting poverty hunger and malnutrition by the World Bank Institute in Washington DC. This training and sharing of experiences with participants from 150 countries equipped him with knowledge to streamline his business activities. “he learnt that working with the community was gateway to success.”
In 2011, I was invited to share the same experience at Hotel Africana during the GEW (Global Entrepreneurship Week) and this opened opportunities to penetrate to large supermarkets which were impossible for him earlier.
Numa Feeds Ltd later won a grant from USADF for capacity building and training the small holder farmers to enable him get quality raw materials,
The partnerships with smallholder farmers, has benefited farmers as their food and financial security and has significantly improved their household level. In return, Numa Feeds Ltd has a reliable supply chain for raw materials.
Agribusiness imitative trust (aBi) also came in to support Numa and her farmers in promoting and marketing of maize and soya beans throughestablishing demonstration farms and supply of inputs among others, all these activities have greatly uplifted contributed to the growth of Numa from a small scale level to Medium entity. The supply chain has grown from the initial 4 groups to 300 groups with 15000 farmers and its work forth growing from 2 to 130 people of which 80% are female.
NUMA FEEDS
Robert Matsiko
Managing Director,
Numa Feeds Ltd.
P.0 .Box 45,Kabwohe ,Sheema ,Uganda
website;www.numa feeds.com
” A centre of Quality nutritious grain products