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Virtual Event - COVID-19, global markets and African agricultural trade: Impacts on growth and food security
Organized by IFPRI, with support from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID)
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Virtual Event - COVID-19, global markets and African agricultural trade: Impacts on growth and food security
Organized by IFPRI, with support from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID)
SEP 17, 2020 - 09:30 AM TO 11:00 AM EDT
De la Fédération des organisations de producteurs de l’Afrique de l’Est (EAFF), la confédération des syndicats agricoles de l'Afrique australe (SACAU), le Réseau des organisations paysannes de l’Afrique de l’Ouest (ROPPA) et le Réseau des producteurs agricoles des agriculteurs de l'Afrique centrale (PROPAC) ont organisé leur 2ème Briefing Continental au Kenya les 13-14 Juillet sur la promotion de modèles financiers inclusifs pour les agriculteurs en Afrique. Environ 120 producteurs, chercheurs et institutions financières ont discuté des domaines clés résumés ci-dessous. Ce débat a été amplifié par un discussion électronique sur la plateforme de la PAFO. Quelques points clés sont résumés ci-après également. Un plan d'action a été élaboré pour les 12 prochains mois.
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1. IGARA GROWERS TEA FACTORY LIMITED,UGANDA
Arthur Babu Muguzi – Chairman Igara Board of Directors
2nd
Briefing for Africa
July 2014
2. 2
Outline
1. Background
2. Igara’s journey to success
3. Production Trend
4. Achievements of Igara Growers Tea Factory as a farmer-led business
5. Challenges faced by Igara Growers Tea Factory
6. Replication of the Business Model
3. 3
Background …
• 1970s: Tea as 4th
highest foreign income earner for Uganda.
• Decline in Sector starting 1973 , and near Collapse by 1981.
• During the period of economic recovery after the Amin regime.
• Uganda Tea Growers designed the Smallholder Tea Development
Programme.
• The Green Leaf Project
• The Tea Factory Project (4 tea factories)
• The objectives of the programme were as follows:
• Assist smallholder farmers to take control of the factories to which they
delivered their green leaf
• Create an attractive investment environment for the medium and large
scale farmers
• Improve extension services
• Improve the technical efficiency and capacity of the tea factories
4. 4
Background …
• Igara Tea Growers Factory Limited was incorporated in 1995.
• It is a public company in which ownership is restricted to bona
fide tea farmers with a signed green leaf supply contract.
• Shares are allotted during the production season on the basis
of one share for every 500 kg of green leaf delivered.
• The principal goal of the company is to buy green leaf tea,
process it into black tea and sell the black tea on the local and
export markets.
• As part of the programme, a management company was
established to manage all the tea factories.
• At the end of the project the other tea factories opted to carry
out their own management.
• Igara and Kayonza opted to create the Uganda Tea
Development Agency Limited (UTDAL).
5. 5
Background …
• UTDAL is wholly owned by Igara and Kayonza tea growers factories
on a 50:50 basis.
• Each shareholder appoints 2 Directors to the UTDAL board and the
fifth Director is independent.
Uganda Tea Development Agency Limited
(UTDAL)
2 Directors from each shareholder
One independent
Igara Growers Tea
Factory Limited
9 Directors
Kayonza Growers Tea
Factory Limited
7 Directors
50%50%
Two DirectorsTwo Directors
Manages all operations at Igara, Buhweju and Kayonza
6. 6
Igara’s Journey to Success …
• Igara Growers Tea Factory Limited has a board of 9 elected
members.
• The board is managed on a rotational system for continuity.
• Board members are elected to represent specific areas within
which they farm.
• Maintain relationship with the farmers through regular
engagement ie quarterly meetings
• Igara lobbied and attracted Government support.
• During 2008 Igara obtained government support for the
Buhweju factory in the form of a grant to cover all the
buildings valued at US$ 2.4 million.
7. 7
Igara’s Journey to Success …
• Igara provides a credit facility to the farmers for inputs such as
fertilizer, herbicides,prunning knives and spray pumps.
• Igara has seen its farmer membership increase from about 4,000
farmers to 6,880 farmers between 1995 and 2013.
• This has been attributed to the recognition given to the
farmers, both new and old farmer, and in some instances some
farmers are recognised posthumously.
• Igara currently has a green leaf production of about 34 million kg
per annum valued at approximately US$ 7.2 million in the local
economy.
• This is driven by the US$ 21 cent per kg of green leaf paid to
the farmers which is influenced by the prices attained for the
made tea and overall management of the production and
marketing costs.
9. 9
Achievements of Igara Growers Tea Factory as a farmer-led business …
• High level of accountability to the farmers
• Emphasis is on adding value to what is already in place
• Made significant improvements to the business such as improved
internal control systems
• Payments to the farmers are significantly high. This includes the
first, second and bonus payments, In addition to dividends.
• The turnover and profitability of the factory is increasing.
• Increased the capacity of the factory from 86,000 kg in 1995 to the
current 100,000 kg per day
• Established and invested in a subsidiary tea factory, the Buhweju
Growers Tea Factory,with the withering capacity of 70,000kg per
day
10. 10
Challenges faced by Igara Growers Tea Factory …
• Poor road infrastructure
• Labour costs for the farmer and the factory.
• Delays in services that should be provided by government.
• Lack of regulation of the tea sector.
• Timely activities and reward of the farmers
• Expensive capital costs(high interest rates)
• Lack of research capacities within the country
• Dependency on international markets,which we don’t control
• Low prices facing the tea industry.
11. 11
Replication of the Business Model …
• Gives Farmer Organisations an option to attract business and
management skills not available within the farmer environment.
• The farmers have the opportunity to remain in control of their
destiny.
• Having a management company allows the combining farmer
organisations in different activities under one management
company.
• The opportunity to share some services and thus lower fixed costs.