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ETG INPUTS ZAMBIA LIMITED
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TG Inputs Zambia Limited is a renowned fertiliser and agro chemicals company which is part of the ETG Inputs Holding Co. Ltd headquartered in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. The Company deals in three brands; Kynoch, Falcon and Zambian Fertilizers. Under the Zambian Fertilizer brand, which is produced in the Lusaka South Multi-Facility Economic Zone, all fertilisers are blended to ensure that they are crop and soil specific, and lime and organic matter enriched. Our distribution is most widespread and largest in Zambia. Our Zambian operations cover more than 45 depots/ outlets in all 10 provinces across the country. T +260 974 772 838 E info.zam@etgworld.com
www.etgworld.com Sida through the Embassy of Sweden in Lusaka, and were joined in 2012 by the UK Government’s DFID as Core Support Funding partners. “Prior to the formation of Musika, as indicated above, majority of the staff had worked together for seven years in the development world to facilitate private development,” explains Reuben Banda, Managing Director of Musika. “Through using the value chain approach in engaging the Agribusiness industry, we were able to create market linkages, and it was from that background that we managed to come together towards the end of the programme to create a local private company limited by Guarantee that has evolved over time to what it is now; a thought leader in the Zambian agricultural sector.” “Now we are able to build ‘value added’ relationships between corporate and smallholder sectors in line with our Objective of the development of a supportive market environment that
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provides opportunities for the rural poor to graduate out of poverty using the market systems approach. The smallscale farmers are engaging with the private sector with growth oriented and all-inclusive information-based business Models that have the ability to reach out to a large number of farmers.” “We wanted to focus on both creating a supportive and enabling business environment in which this could seamlessly happen, and that is what we have built our solid reputation upon during the past six years.” In its present-day form, Musika facilitates the development of these commercially-grounded business relationships that are beneficial to both the private sector and smallholder farmers in Zambia. The private sector and smallholder farmers commercial relationship provides a platform for the agribusiness firms to not only sell their products and services, but also provide value addition-embedded services and
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STEWARDS GLOBE LIMITED
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ounded in 2007, Stewards Globe Limited, whose brand name is AFRISEED, is one of the leading diversified seed companies that produces and markets legume, oil and cereal seed varieties that are locally and regionally adaptable to the everchanging climatic conditions. The Company distributes the seed countrywide reaching more than 70,000 smallholder farmers in Zambia in 2017. Our partnership with Musika created new business linkages with Dominion Commodities Ltd to extend our product and technology reach into the smallholder out grower schemes thereby leverage and share infrastructure, investments, and expertise as well as social and human capital to reduce costs, lower risks, and expand client services. T +260 211 847 735 | +260 095847 735 E info@stewardsglobe.com
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