Soap formulated in Ghana using UMPGL's high quality moringa oil
Shea Butter Cottage sent us some images of their finished products being produced in Ghana. The above image is of rows of bar soap formulated using UMPL oil as one of the ingredients. The soap will be exported to the UK for sale within the EU.
We are very excited by this picture not simply because it our customer, but because of what it portends. The value addition message is what we strive to adhere to. Even though we didn’t manufacture the soap ourselves, we are extremely proud that our client produced the soap in Ghana before export. This means jobs were created both here in Uganda as well as in Ghana. Along the whole value chain, someone always benefits. We strive to keep the entire production chain as close to the continent as possible. So if our clients are in Kenya, South Africa or Ghana, we feel good that we are taking part in regional trade on the continent, which is something that is sorely needed.
Every sale we make on the continent proves to us that there is a market for our products on here, and that we mustn’t be discouraged that we are not getting EU or American sales, there’s plenty of customers right here on the continent. We just have to continue provide value, excellent prices and quality products. The rest will take care of itself. Of course it doesn’t matter where our customers are coming from, but it is especially heart-warming to complete a sale that we know will be instrumental to someone’s job on the continent. And that to us is what it is all about; creating as many jobs as possible during the development cycle of that product. In this case, our farmers are paid well. Our UMPGL staff is paid to process the raw materials and manage the customers. Our shippers are paid to make sure our product arrives at its destination. Our customer’s employees are paid to further process our value-added raw materials into finished products for shipping.
We need more of these connected value-addition chains on the continent. Certainly we are just a blip of activity, but imagine if we had quarter-million value chains in various industries on the continent. We all must do our part to strengthen regional partnerships. It is imperative. An independent Africa is an Africa that trades with itself.
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There is alot of available market on the continent and uganda in particular bacause of numereous applications of moringa. this miracle tree can help solve unemployment and crime in uganda tremendouesly.continue promoting the growing of the crop . Iwould request you to introduce the tree to my district of kamuli ,to fight poverty there .
Thank you for the comment. We are slowly working on expanding and making this a growth crop for the country. In the coming years once we have established manufacturing and processing facilities in Masindi, we will set up satellite facilities around the country and region.We are badly in need of supply of seeds so we expect to be expanding very soon.
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