BUSINESS PLAN FOR KIGOZI&FAMILY MIXED FARM

Name and address of organization KIGOZI&FAMILY MIXED FARM

KAWUKU,NAKIFUMA,MUKONO
UGANDA

Contact person Kigozi Stephen

0785059877/0759721324
stphnkigozi@gmail.com

Business industry ( enterprise of focus) Mixed farming

1.0 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

Business Overview
KIGOZI&FAMILY MIXED FARM, located in KAWUKU, NAKIFUMA, MUKONO,UGANDA , is
an indigenous farming project.

Products Served

KIGOZI&FAMILY MIXED FARM will be involved in the commercial farming of the following
products:

 Matooke
 Coffee
 Maize
 Piggery
 Poultry
 Apiary

Customer Focus

KIGOZI&FAMILY MIXED FARM will primarily serve local residents and retailers of farm products
within a 100-mile radius of the farm.

Management Team

KIGOZI&FAMILY MIXED FARM’s most valuable asset is the passion and experience of its founder,
Kigozi. Kigozi has been in farming/agriculture since childhood.

KIGOZI&FAMILY MIXED FARM will also employ/hire more experienced farm workers to handle the
day to day operations of the farm.

Success Factors

KIGOZI&FAMILY MIXED FARM is qualified to succeed due to the following reasons:

 There is currently a high demand for the products in the community. In addition, the company
surveyed the local population and received highly positive feedback pointing towards an explicit demand
for the products, supporting the business after launch.
 The farm has healthy relationships with the neighborhood.
 The management team has a track record of success in the farming business.
 The farming business is a proven business and has succeeded in communities throughout Uganda.

2.0 INTRODUCTION

Kigozi and family mixed farm was initiated in November 2019 by Kigozi Stephen with ultimate
aim of changing the lives of my family after returning from UAE as a migrant worker(cargo
loader) with Trans-guard Security group for 4 years. From the individual situation analysis and
publications, it was found that Nakifuma county is characterized by a low population density with
50 persons per KM2, with high part of the population living below the poverty line with 60.4%.
Out of the total population, it was found that 80 – 85% is primarily engaged in agriculture.

Nakifuma county in Mukono district has distinctive crops and livestock production areas. Some
crosscutting constraints are; unstable and low prices of agricultural commodities, poor storage and
infrastructure for value addition, declining soil fertility, high post-harvest losses, expensive
agricultural inputs and lack of irrigation facilities.

After noticing these constraints, the kigozi family selected the system entry point as being
matooke and piggery, to address issues of nutrition, food security, income and natural resource
management. By going through a series of farmers’ meetings and trainings on agriculture, the
demand and desire to start mixed farming just doubled from what was expected. During the
initiation stage of the program, a number youths and women who are the most vulnerable of
poverty, hunger, malnutrition continued to show interest to provide cheap labour at the farm.

In December 2022, the farm experienced a double tragedy that the matooke plantation was heavily
hit by hail stones and most of the plants were damaged. On top of the piggery project was equally
hit by swine fever which swept more than 50 pigs which drastically affected the expectations of
seeing a livelihood improvement of my family.

Kigozi and family mixed farm having been affected by the losses chose to start afresh with the
addition of poultry farming in 2023 and having plans of intercropping colonal coffee (KR) with
the matooke as a way of improve the income of the family and the community who offer labour.
Therefore a high market potential, ranging from human consumption of people around Mukono
and Kampala,a percentage of the proceeds from the above investments will be directly ploughed
back into the business.

Goal: To ensure sustainability and livelihood improvement

Mission: To promote community sustainability and improving the standards of living of each family .

3.0 OBJECTIVES OF THE BUSINESS

The following objectives of KIGOZI&FAMILY MIXED FARM are:

 To promote, multiply and supply high quality farm products.

 To improve the family standards of living and the community around through improving the
earnings
4.0 BUSINESS DESCRIPTION

Access to agricultural input is crucial for agricultural productivity, improvement and determining
food and income security of farmers at household levels, and of the country. Use of improved
varieties can catalyse investment into sustainable integrated farming practices and associated
agricultural inputs. In the last 20 years, there has been a notable increase of entrepreneurs entering
the mixed farming sector in Uganda. Reasons for this have ranged from the recognition of market
opportunities for supplying farmers with improved quality varieties and the increased support in
agricultural inputs distribution schemes by governments and non-governmental organizations.
There is still high potential for growth in agri-business development that will need availability of
more improved and quality agricultural products. Mixed farming productivity and profitability
enhancement business is organized and is to be implemented by KIGOZI&FAMILY MIXED
FARM. The business is set to help out individual and group farmers by uplifting their welfare and
their household incomes, create awareness and food security and equipping farmers with modern
sustainable development skills.
5.0 BUSINESS JUSTIFICATION

By promoting the mixed farming approach will imply that farmer’ levels of income, their health
and nutrition level, food security, literacy, and natural resource management/NRM will be
improved in the long-run. This is justified by the fact that there’s now already market for farm
products, and the demand for animal, bee and poultry products mukono even in the neighboring
districts.
The project targets both unemployed youth and women. The implication is that farmers will be
able to put monies into their pockets after working at the farm and this is likely to help them
improve their standard of living.
6.0 MANAGEMENT TEAM AND THEIR ROLES

KIGOZI&FAMILY MIXED FARM’s most valuable asset is the experience of its founder, Stephen
Kigozi. Kigozi comes and grew up from purely an agricultural family that gave him enough agricultural
experience.

Kigozi is intimately familiar with the operations requirements for farming as an enterprise.

KIGOZI&FAMILY MIXED FARM will also employ a farm manager to manage operations at the
farmer together with other workers. The manager will be an experienced farm manager who will be
trained in agriculture by kigozi and other entities.

Hiring Plan

Kigozi will serve as the CEO. To launch the cattle farm, the company will need to hire the following
personnel:

 Farm manager 1
 Farm workers 03
 Casual Workers

7.0 SWOT ANALYSIS

Strengths:
 Mixed farming is a multi-functional sector and plays a significant role in the economy and
nutrition of families.
 Mixed farming can efficiently survive on most land in Mukono
  Mixed farming creates employment to the rural poor besides effectively utilizing unpaid family
labour.

 With mixed farming each sectors supports another in one way or the other.

Opportunities:
 High and ready market of farm products.
 Confirmed ever increasing Market price
Weakness
 Large-scale mixed farming has not yet become a successful venture in the country.

Threats
 More farming activities are increasing & according to the available spare other sectors will need
to be transferred to another area.

8.0FINANCIAL HIGHLIGHTS

KIGOZI&FAMILY MIXED FARM is currently seeking UGX6, 050,000 to start coffee farming and
apiary. Specifically, these funds will be used for input as follows:

 2500 colonal coffee seedlings each a 1700UGX=4,250,000 UGX

 12 Langstroth BEE Hives each at 150,000 UGX=1,800,000UGX