Our Approach

We start with the farmer, then build the food system around them. Mumita did not begin with a factory. It began with farmer groups, and everything the group has added since stands on that base.

Older farmers seated in plastic chairs at a meeting on a veranda

Farmer groups

We started with farmer groups

Our first job was organising farmers around tropical staples: plantain, cassava, maize, pineapple and tomatoes. Today smallholders are grouped into clusters by crop and by region.

Each cooperative gets training, inputs, links to buyers and a set way of bringing the harvest together. Farmers, especially young people and women, are trained to own and lead the group, not only to grow for it.

  • Smallholders grouped by crop and region
  • Training, inputs and links to buyers for each cooperative
  • A network of 35+ cooperatives across Cameroon

Training and inputs

Training and inputs come before the harvest

Our trainers work in English, French and local dialects, on climate-smart farming, group marketing, financial literacy and crop protection.

Agronomists plan inputs from a soil analysis and follow the crop through the season. Planting material comes from IRAD and from specialised cooperatives.

Participants seated in rows at a Mumita training session in a meeting hall

After the harvest

From harvest to cold room to factory

Less food lost between the field and the shelf.

The control panel of a cold room, with temperature displays and switches
Cold rooms

After harvest, produce is graded, pre-processed and kept in our cold rooms, so less of it spoils before it reaches a buyer. Other producers can rent the space too.

Two Mumita staff in white coats load a tray of green leaves into a stainless drying cabinet
Processing at Bonduma Gate

At Bonduma Gate in Buea, our processing units clean, cut, dry and freeze indigenous vegetables, mushrooms and snails, to ANOR and Centre Louis Pasteur food safety standards.

Mumita Foods packs of dried leaves and spices on a shop shelf
Mumita Foods packs

Dried and frozen foods in labelled pouches, sold through Carrefour, Njeiforbi, Fako Bakery and Tropical Market in Chicago.

From soil to shelf

One chain, end to end

Farmer cooperatives

Smallholders grouped by crop and region.

Training and inputs

Agronomy, inputs and planting material.

Harvest

Graded and brought together after picking.

Cold store and processing

Cold rooms and processing units at Bonduma Gate.

Mumita Foods packs

Dried and frozen foods in labelled pouches.

Markets

Carrefour, Njeiforbi, Fako Bakery and Tropical Market in Chicago.

Four companies, one chain

Each company runs a part of the chain and signs off the same way: A Mumita Company.

Who does what

  • Mumita Agro Consultancy sets up and manages farms, trains farmers and runs the cold rooms and warehouses.
  • Mumita Foods processes and packs what the farmers grow, under its own name, LYDA and Mumi Chips.
  • Praïs cooks it: catering, a restaurant in Buea and diet advice.
  • Mumita Marketplace will link farmers and buyers directly as the platform opens.

Proof, not promises

Records at every step

We keep records at every step, with mobile data collection, GPS mapping, SMS surveys and plain logbooks. They track yields, inputs, training, market prices and what changes for the people involved.

Products carry QR batch codes that lead back to where they were grown.

  • 580+ hectares of farmland managed for clients
  • 43 climate-smart irrigation systems installed
  • 35+ cooperatives in our network
  • 10+ countries our food has reached
A hand holds a Garmin GPS unit over a field during farm mapping

580+

Hectares of farmland managed for clients

See the chain for yourself

Bonduma Gate, 200m from Bokwai Roundabout, Buea. Tell us whether you want to visit, buy from us or farm with us.

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Call +237 650 754 393
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