The Challenge FundProject Portfolio- CALL 2

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Seba Foods Zambia Ltd, a subsidiary of 260 Brands, is a producer and supplier of maize and soya based consumer food products. It manufactures, markets and distributes a wide variety of nutritious and affordable products through well-known brands that include Golden Goodness, Seba’s Instant Thobwa, Seba’s HEPS (High Energy Protein Supplement) and Emilios, in Zambia, regionally and internationally.

Continental Ginnery Limited (CGL) is a member of the Parrogate Group, an agricultural company with operations in Malawi, Zimbabwe and Zambia. Parrogate Zambia is also part of the group – a sister company to CGL, and processes oilseed in Zambia. CGL is involved in cotton aggregation and processing.

Export Trading Company Ltd (ETC Zambia) is an agricultural trading company in Zambia operating under the Export Trading Group (ETG) Brand. ETG is a conglomerate with nine Zambian subsidiaries and over 150 global subsidiaries.

Starke Ayres Zambia (SAZ) is a specialist in the vegetable, flower and the lawn seed industry. Starke Ayres has its own vegetable seed breeding programmes, supported by ongoing research and development. Initially, Starke Ayres distributed seeds through Pannar Seed in Zambia.

ASBA Resources trades cattle hides, both raw and tanned, doing all the marketing on behalf of ASBA Hides. The company works closely with Pan African Leather (PAL) which is contracted to provide tannery services on its site in Kabwe. Major customers include regional, and international tanneries.

Community Markets for Conservation Limited (COMACO) is a company limited by guarantee. As such, it has no shareholders and exists to serve a cause or set of beneficiaries, and all profits are reinvested in the business. It was established in 2009, and is involved in agro-processing. It identifies itself as a “company of cooperatives”.

Mount Meru Millers Zambia was established in 2012 and is a subsidiary of the Mount Meru Group, a multinational company working in agriculture, energy and logistics. MMMZ produces edible oils for sale in Zambia. They source 95% of their inputs (soyabean, sunflower seeds and cotton seeds) from smallholder farmers across Southern, Central and Eastern provinces.

Avian Ventures Limited T/A Farm Depot is an agro-input business with a retail store network of 19 outlets throughout the Copperbelt, North Western and Luapula Provinces, supplying small scale farmers with a range of poultry, animal and cropping inputs. Farm Depot has a wide range of veterinary products, crop chemicals, seeds, seedlings, poultry equipment, day old chicks, and stock feeds.

New Rotations Farming Zambia (NRZ) is a Zambian registered company that is fully owned (bar one share) by British company Canon Garth which specialises in groundnut supply chains across the globe. NRZ sources, cleans and grades groundnuts for export. All export grade produce is sold to Canon Garth for international markets – snack, confectionery, peanut butter and food ingredients.

Chisamba Ranching and Cropping (CRC) is an integrated mixed ranching and cropping operation that specialises in both agricultural production and in the provision of affordable protein to the wholesale and retail markets. CRC also has a subsidiary called Zambian Pig Genetics Ltd which is a swine breeding company and this has an established extension service model.