Bongomin Group Limited Uganda Africamechanize

1. Regional workshop to share experiences of
sustainable agricultural mechanization hire service
provision practices in Sub-Saharan African countries.
What opportunities for investments?
ANDREW EBONG
BONGOMIN GROUP LIMITED
UGANDA
December 9-12, 2019, Grand Imperial Hotel
Uganda, kampala

2. About Bongomin Group
• Legally registered as limited company in Jan 2015
• Located in Plot 37, Ssaima complex, Cathedral
Avenue, Mbale Municipality
• Vision: To be the pace setter of market tailored
Agricultural Innovation and preferred
Agribusiness partner.
• Mission: To deliver products and services of
consistent quality that meet the utmost
expectations of our customers.

3. About Bongomin Group-Goals
• To constantly develop new products and
services innovation that support the
production of high quality Rice for both
domestic consumption and exports.
• To upscale mechanization service provision to
cover at least 10,000 hectares of rice
production area annually
• To increase rice yields to from the current
2.5tons per hectare to 6 tons per hectare

4. About Bongomin Group- Non
Mechanization services provided
• Real Farm management and consulting
• Rice seed multiplication, processing and sales
• Distribution of fertilizers and herbicides –
Tailor made to Rice, fruits and vegetables
• Fruits and vegetable production and sale

5. Mechanization services provided

6. How are we doing it?
Training of the operators
Youth that offer their services
in return for wages are given
the first priority
Commission model to the
organizations
We negotiate and sign
agreement with farmer
organizations

7. Services Provided
• BGL provides services in 14 districts of Eastern
Uganda eg. Butaleja, Tororo, Bulambuli, Mbale,
Kwen Districts
• Rice Production related services
– Land preparation services (paddling and levelling)
– Mechanical rice transplanting systems
– Herbicides and pesticides management
– Combine harvesting services
• Other activities -Biochar production and sales

8. Capacity: machinery and human
resources
Machinery resources
Type of Equipment Performance
(Power, Width..
Date of Purchase New or Used
condition
Hydro power tiller
(10)
10hp-1.5ha per
day-8 hours of
work.
First purchase-
sept,2015; 2nd
Perchase June,
2017; Latest
Purchase
Oct,2019
New
Rice Transplanter
(6 pièces)-NSP-4
Row
4.3 hp- 1ha per
days with one
transplanter
March, 2016 and
Jan, 2019
New
Combine
harvesters –DC60
(1 piece)
60 hp-900x
1828mm with
cutting blade do
10ha per day.
Jan, 2019 New

9. Capacity: machinery and human
resources
Human Resources
Staff Number Training/Qualification Years of
experience
Management 2 Bachelor Degree level+
specialized Rice
production system
training-IRRI & PhilRice
9
Technical staff 4 2Bachelor Degree Level
and 2 diplôma level
8-15
Support staff 21 Rages from secondary
graduation to On Job
training
5-19

10. Major mechanization hire-services:
Outputs
(hectares/year; farmers served; tons processed/year; revenue)
Description of the
activity
Agricultural
production chain
Output (in
Ha/year, t/h, km
…)
Period over the
year
Paddling and land
levelling
Paddy rice
production
2,400ha/year December –Sept (8
months average
Mechanized
riceTransplanting
Paddy rice
production
817 ha/year December-Sept (8
month Average
Rice harvesting Rice harvest and
post harvest
management
1,072ha/year March –December

11. Business management
• Signed MoUs with farmer groups and
cooperatives –pay leaders commission for
arrangement and managing their members
• Trained machine repairer and operators and
now working on installation of fully equipped
workshop that will produce some spare parts
locally.
• Banks are yet to pick interest in the whole
operation .

12. Business Constraints/Challenges
• Lack of efficient farm infrastructure –roads
within the farm.
• Unsycronized planting of the rice by farmers
• Expensive to train the operators especially on
mechanized transplanting system -25,000 USD
for complete training

13. Conclusions
• Selection of appropriate technologies and model by the private
sector