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Sheila Alumo

Eastern Agricultural Development Company Ltd(EADC)

Uganda
Food Fortification

About Company

EADC is an agri-biz social enterprise registered in June 2016 with head offices in Soroti-Uganda. EADC’s core business is processing & trading of super-rich bio-fortified foods (Vit A orange fleshed sweet potatoes (OFSP) & High Iron& Zinc rich beans (HIB) ) with a social & development aim of increasing farmers incomes & solving Uganda’s malnutritional deficiencies of Vit A, Iron & Zinc. We work with exporters of both local & orange fleshed sweet potatoes (OFSP) and beans. The OFSP flour & a fraction of the beans are sold locally. EADC has a network of 3,000 farmers from Teso, Karamoja & Bugisu regions who feed into our production supply chain. The Small holder farmers are provided with clean seed & we buy back the produce at market value. EADC has a functional board comprised of 7 Board Directors that jointly oversees the company activities. EADC also offers ICT extension services & is digitising its supply chain. We are gradually evolving from cash to cashless payments. We have Integrated the mastercard farmers network (MFN)-ICT payment based solution in our activities. The MFN-ICT platform enables us maintain a farmers’ digital database and digitally pay farmers among others. Todate we have 3017 farmers registered on the platform.

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