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Advetising Feature
SOSOMA Industries LTD Leading in nutritional flours
To support local farmers, DUHAMIC-ADRI a local non-governmental organisation (NGO) experienced major complexities that farmers faced with low productivity and lack of local processing plants for their produce by starting a small production unit to process grains. With a mission of supporting development through integrated initiatives of the rural population in the fight for self-development; It assisted farmers and carpenters to improve their skills and productivity, DUHAMIC-ADRI which was established in 1979 worked tirelessly but found that as productivity grew there was no value addition to farmer’s harvests hence falling short of the intended goal of producing nutritious foods to fight malnutrition. Having their primary cereal and pulses grains as Sorghum, Soybeans and Maize, a name was forged as SOSOMA (So: soybean, SO: sorghum, MA: Maize) which started value addition to produce flours.
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September 2018
In 2008 after seeking local partnership and equipped with two hundred twenty-six million Rwandan francs Sosoma Industries Limited, an agro-processing industry was established in Kigali as a private company with 2,269 shares. DUHAMIC-ADRI has promoted the creation of SOSOMA Industries Ltd in order to further improve quality, increase the quantity and make more available the best products and services originally provided by SOSOMA production unit. SOSOMA flours are rich and balanced food for all age groups. It was appreciated by all who have consumed it: adults and children as nutritional, adequate and safe supplementary (solid) foods at six (6) months together with continued breastfeeding up to 2-years and beyond for its taste, flavour and milling (sieving size). SOSOMA Products are most helpful for feeding people exceptionally within difficult healthy circumstances: people living with HIV, settings where mortality due to diarrhoea, pneumonia and malnu-
trition remain prevalent; adolescent mothers; infants and young children who are malnourished; and families suffering from the consequences of complex emergencies. Diogène Ngezahayo, the Director General of Sosoma Industries Ltd says the factory kicked-off its agro-processing operations with less than five Cereal based flour products that were initially produced by its main shareholder, DUHAMIC-ADRI production unit from sorghum, soybeans, and maize.
