Tell me about FIT Uganda Limited
|
FIT Uganda is a business development consultancy company
that has over 11 years of experience providing business support
services mainly though project facilitation, concept design, project
implementation. We offer our services mainly by undertaking
customerised consultancies, provision of business training, information
dissemination and market linkages programmes and value chain
analyses and evaluation to mention but a few.
|
The service is being called infotrade, why?
|
Infotrade is a business name owned by FIT Uganda Limited that was
registered with the sole purpose of promoting Business and agricultural
marketing Information in the country. We shall be branding the
service offered by FIT as "INFOTRADE", meaning: "Information for
Trade". Information is the engine for trade without it you cannot be
competitive in your sector.
|
Before your project, Price information has been previously
collected by other public projects, what is the difference with your
model of approach?
|
Yes, you are right that price information has been collected in
succession by three to four projects now. But as you have said, it
is PRICE information not Market information. By definition Market
information is business resource that contributes to the know how
and increases the chances for agricultural chain actors to manage
prevailing situations and plan for the future market opportunities.
You cannot plan you business based on an indicative price but you
need to have data about the desired quality, desired quantities,
transaction costs[ input costs e.t.c,], delivery modes and seasonality
of the products from the production side to empower you to trade
or market of your produce.
This model is aimed at supporting the farmers/traders to sell more to
the current buyers, source and research for better markets, secure
medium and long term markets for sustainable production and
markets that offer the best prices.
|
So what kind of information should we expect from the FIT Model
|
Market Information shall include but is not limited to : crops and
varieties per region, seasonality, price details of seeds, fertilizers,
pesticides and list of stockists within the 10 km radius, current market
prices indicates both retail and wholesale, forecast of market trends,
indicative regional production quantities ( planned), weather info,
indicate transport price from points of production and list of buyers .
Note this will cover both Market and Production side with time.
|
Which products or commodities are you starting with in the first
year?
|
We are currently covering a total of 44 commodities which fall in 10 categories, namely:
Cereals, Fruits, oil Crops, Poultry, Livestock Products, Animal Products, Legumes, Root Crops, Fish and traditional Cash crops. For
more information on the commodities under these categories please click here.
|
Where is the information collected?
|
We are collecting market data from 6 markets in the central region (Kalerwe, Nakasero, Nakawa, Owino, Kiboga, Masaka), 6 in the
east (Jinja, Iganga, Soroti, Kapchorwa, Mbale) 5 in the west (Mbarara, Hoima, Kabale, Kisoro, Kasese) and 3 in the northern
region (Lira, Arua and Gulu).
|
How is the information going to be disseminated to the public?
|
At the start, we launched a mailing list, where subscribes by
emailing to infotrade@fituganda.com. But currently we are setting up notice boards at districts offices, public buildings and in market
areas where these price indicaters are being posted. We are also working with other media avenues as
content providers such as radio, television and the internet (www.infotradeuganda.com). In addition we acquired an Short Message Code (8555)
which will enable users access market information by use of the mobile phone (SMS).
|
If I am interested in a commodity and its not list or I want more
information, what do I do?
|
Link up with us so that we can discuss your information requirement.
We can customize some of the information requirements at a
cost for specific clients thus providing you with detailed analytical
information and trends for a given sector.
|
How can you be contacted?
|
FIT UGANDA LIMITED
Plot 351 A Balituma Road, Nakulabye
P.O. Box 24060 Kampala , Uganda
Tel. (256)0414-532393
Fax. (256)0414-532391
www.infotradeuganda.com
Email: infotrade@fituganda.com
|
|
|
 |
business tools |
|
|
Infotrade |
|
|
Search Infotrade |
|
|
