TIV & WFP Visit
Community impact is not only created through project implementation but also monitoring. Follow us on a journey to visit our projects.
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Welcome to Omia Agribusiness Development Group
"Soil is a living ecosystem, and is a farmer’s most precious asset. A farmer’s productive capacity is directly related to the health of his or her soil."
Community impact is not only created through project implementation but also monitoring. Follow us on a journey to visit our projects.
It takes a bold leap of faith to face hardships, pick oneself up and then achieve great dreams through poultry farming like Mayoku is doing.
Our Staff are a great asset towards achieving our vision of farmers first. Capacity building makes them even more efficient and effective.
Dear Partners, Friends, and the Omia Agribusiness Community,
November has been a full and transformative month for us. We hosted a joint due diligence mission by WFP and UNCDF, marking an important step toward securing investment to scale our services to farmers and youth. We also began the BDO audit for FY 2024–2025 and advanced our investment process with Acumen, receiving and signing the term sheet and moving into legal due diligence.
To strengthen our visibility and learning, we acquired new camera kits and a projector, and our team took part in a critical Gender, Safeguarding, and Inclusion training. Our Advisory Board meeting provided strategic direction as we continue to refine our governance structure, and we successfully concluded the recruitment of our Chief Financial Officer.
Operationally, we signed an Agency Agreement with Quantum Foods for chicks, initiated asset disposal to improve efficiency, and managed insecurity challenges in Yumbe with professionalism and care. A key milestone was signing an MoU with Radio Pacis to launch the Youth in Agribusiness Programme. Under SIYEP, we also completed a capacity assessment by
Refuse to Fail.
Thank you to our staff, partners, and the thousands of farmers we serve for your continued trust and commitment. I invite you to dive into this month’s newsletter and explore the full stories behind these highlights.
On November, the 5 , 2025, a joint team from Omia
Agribusiness, World Food Programme (WFP), The Innovation Village (TIV), and Tulima Solar paid courtesy
visits to various farmer groups in Koboko and Yumbe to
amongst others: observe the use of Solar Water Pumps and adoption of good practices by the groups.
SHS.2.2 million was realized by Kejiri A Farmers Group after being supported under the Solar I Project
These visits also provided a golden opportunity for these entities to witness the real-world impact of their interventions and also have face to face interactions with the farmer groups and understand their strengths and weaknesses. For example, Kejiri A Farmers Group attested to have made 2.2 million shillings from the support they received in the Solar I Project.
Another farmer group that the team visited was the Aliodrozu Farmers Group. The participants in this group praised the intervention of the solar water pumps as a game-changer in the way that they did farming since the pumps were affordable. They also added that the micromills were easy to operate.
Through such visits, an avenue for continuous learning is created regarding what is working and what is not working based on the live events in the field and the direct engagement with the farmers. This helps kick-start the modelling or re-modelling of practical solutions that can influence positive and long-lasting transformation in the community.
The 19th of November, 2025 presented an opportunity for Omia Agribusiness to join hands with other partners in empowering farmers. This was in Dranya Sub-County, Koboko District and the farmer group that was engaged was the Loketa Beri Farmer Group.
The training done in conjunction with For Afrika was aimed at ensuring the farmers are up to speed with not only the best farming practices but also, aspects of agribusiness and how they can make money as a farming group not only through direct involvement in agricultural production but also through agribusiness as well.
During this training, For Afrika pledged to support this group to a tune of Shs. 1 million so that they can be able to set-up their own input shop managed by the farmers themselves in their community. To achieve this, Omia Agribusiness will provide these farmers with the inputs worth the starting capital. In addition, Omia Agribusiness will closely be in touch with them to enable them stay afloat and grow into a bigger enterprise in their community.
When Amos Mayoku, a poultry farmer based in Arua Central Division, Arua City dropped out of school due to lack of school fees, it was a case of life throwing at him lemons. What did he do about it? He decided to make lemonade.
Rather than sit back on his laurels, Mayoku decided to venture into laying and baking bricks which earned him a fee within the region of Shs. 3 million when he sold the bricks. With that money, he used part of it to enroll for a poultry farming training earning a Certificate.
Armed with starting capital and skills garnered from the training, Mayoku started with 200 birds and then rapidly graduated to 600 birds after borrowing Shs. 3 million from his Uncle to expand his business to 17,000 birds.
One year down the road, Mayoku employs 5 other people and makes about 10.2 million shillings in Gross Profit from every stock of new birds. Omia Agribusiness has been instrumental in providing him with timely and regular check-ins to ensure the health of the birds as well as supplying quality inputs.
The number of birds Mayoku started his farm with
The current average capacity of Mayoku’s farm
The Gross Profit Mayoku makes per stock of birds
Farmers First