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Finance Minister Kasaija Delighted About Tycoon Hamis Kigundu’s Modern Agro-Processing Plant

The Minister of Finance and Economic Planning, Matia Kasaija has commended businessman Ham Kiggundu for establishing a complete integrated food processing unit, creating jobs and opportunities for young people.

The minister made remarks on Wednesday September 28, 2022 in an interview with the New Vision and after paying a visit to Kiggundu’s agro-Processing Plant in the Akright Estate along Entebbe road.

Kasaija thanked the businessman for investing quite a good amount of money in establishing the food processing unit and commended the idea of building more specialised processing plants in the major agricultural zones across the country.

“He is outing up silos, processing up plants and bringing up some ecosystem to make the process very green. He has a show room where the products he would have added value will be showcased. It’s a commendable job and if I can have more 20-30 Ugandans doing a similar thing around the country, then the future will be very bright”, Kasaija said.

Tycoon Hamis Kiggundu with Minister Kasaija at the Agro-processing plant

He becomes the second minister to visit Ham Agro- Processing Industries within a period of five months.

In April this year, the Minister of State for Investments, Evelyn Anite lauded Kiggundu for creating jobs and opportunities for young people.

Anite visited the premises in the company of a team of officials from the Free-Trade Zone Authority.

“Thank you Ham for investing in Uganda & for creating jobs. It was nice listening to a young and focused young Ugandan investor. As government, we promise to support the post harvest handling for export & the entire project,” Anite said.

Ham Kiggundu leading Minister Anite on a tour of the vast complex

According to the businessman he decided to set up the agro-processing industries and planned to build more specialized processing plants in the major agricultural zones across the country in the future, in line with the with crop and livestock resource endowments specific to each agro-ecological zone the country.

Kiggundu adds that his main goal is to promote agro value addition mainly through assessing, sorting, quality analysis, managing, packaging and marketing local produce domestically, regionally and internationally.

The vast complex was built at Shs 440 billion, according to Kiggundu, who recently took the minister on the tour of the plant.

Ham Kiggundu leading Minister Matia Kasaija on a tour of the vast complex

The plant processes and adds value to various crops from across the board ranging from fruits, vegetables, cereals and other plants for both local consumption and export.

Kiggundu through his Ham Agro-Processing Industries has set up an integrated agro-processing industrial park and plans to set up 10 important crop and livestock production zone locations in Uganda.

For example he will set up milk and meat processing units in Mbarara and Karamoja sub region; maize and sugar mills in the Hoima Masindi region, another plant in West Nile and the North, Eastern and Central.

Ham Kiggundu leading Minister Matia Kasaija on a tour of the vast complex

“This will create more employment opportunities and boost incomes for communities across the country while boosting production and foreign exchange earnings as all the excess produce will be value added first then exported,” Kiggundu said.

Uganda has 10 agro-ecological zones comprising of: North-Eastern Dry lands; North-Eastern Savannah Grasslands; North-Western Savannah Grasslands; Parra Savannahs; Kyoga Plains; Lake Victoria Crescent; Western Savannah Grasslands; Pastoral Rangelands; South-western Farmlands; and the Highland Ranges.

Kiggundu’s integrated agro-processing industrial park is a dedicated cluster of large, medium and small scale food processing units.

Minister Kasaija, Hamis Kiggundu tours the Agro-processing complex

It will be facilitated with common basic and modern infrastructure such as, internal roads, cold storage units, food laboratory, effluent treatment plant.

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