Animal Sub-sector
Dairy and dairy products
- Dairy and dairy products (1.5 bn lts annually with potential to more than double)
- Powdered milk production
- Flavoured and UHT Milk
- Production of butter and ghee
- Cheese production
- Cream and ice-cream
- Establishment of collection centres and distribution facilities, etc.
- Milk production and processing
- Dairy milk processing plants for dairy products such as butter, ice cream, yogurt and traditional
Meat and meat products
- Beef exports; (12 m cattle, 13 m Goats, 38m poultry, all with potential to more than double)
- Animal feeds processing and distribution
- Commercial breeding and production of semen for local and export market
- Construction of modern abattoirs to enable meat production and processing
- Production of animal drugs for the treatment of animals
- Tanning of hides and skins
- Extensive ranching and Beef ranching
- Establishment of feedlots close to industries producing agricultural byproducts and crop residues in Busoga and Masaka;
- Conservation of feed (Hay and Silage) for sale;
- Nucleus breeding farms for beef breeds;
- Processing of traditional beef products such as smoked, salted and sun dried meats;
- Nucleus breeding for local goats such as Mubende and improved exotic breeds such as the Boer goats
- Feedlot establishment and management
- Good pasture development
- Developing local pasture seeds instead of relying on imported seeds
- Quality meat production and processing
- Organic manure processing for local consumption
- Vaccine development, research and production
- Local human capacity development
- Vaccine production units;
- Laboratories for disease surveillance and diagnosis;
- Forage seed production and processing;
- Commercial breeding and production of semen for the local and export market;
- Export of live animals, meat and meat products.
Poultry Industry
- Feed manufacturing;
- Hatchery units in targeted zones to produce day old chicks for sale;
- Commercial eggs and table bird production to supply the local and regional markets particularly southern Sudan;
- Poultry processing plants to produce chicken carcasses for human consumption.
Fisheries subsector
- Manufacture of Value Added Fish Products – No firm in the country processes fish into finished products such as canned fish, fish sausages, fish soups and breaded fish products.
- Local and Regional Cold Distribution Chain – Refrigeration facilities are required to enable distribution of fish to the local and regional market.
- Dry/Smoked Fish – Demand for dry/smoked fish is high within the region including the European Union. In addition the Capital investment required to setup a drying facility is rather low. Equipment for hot smoking, capable of producing 200 metric tonnes per year costs about US$ 200,000.
- Production of high value added by products – Currently, only one firm, Uganda Fish Skin tannery converts fish skins into leather for export. Other value added products such as isinglass and pharmaceuticals could also be manufactured from fisheries waste.
- Fish & Fish products Export Marketing – There is minimal promotion of fish and fish products from Uganda.
- Ornamental Fish – Marketing ornamental fish species e.g. Happochromis has gained significant markets in USA and the European Union.
- Aquaculture/Large-scale fish farming- This has huge potential in Uganda but has not been fully developed.
- Local and regional cold distribution chain
- Dry/smoked fish
- Manufacture of value added fish products
- Production of high value added by products
- Fish and fish products export marketing
- Marketing ornamental fish species
- Scale fish farming
- Manufacture of value added fish products e.g. canned fish, fish sausages, fish soups, etc; (382,000mt of fish landed annually)
- Aquaculture development – premium species e.g. cage fish, eel fish, etc
- Leather processing for export
- Production of fish fingerlings
- Production of fish feeds
- Capacity building in fisheries
Other opportunities
- Abattoirs for pigs
- Game ranching and farming particularly ostrich and crocodile farming;
sources
http://www.ugandainvest.go.ug/index.php/key-sectors
http://focusafrica.gov.in/Investment_Opportunities_in_Uganda.html