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.
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We started with
farmer groups
Our first job, in 2016, 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.
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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.
03 From harvest to cold room to factory
Less food lost between the field and the shelf.
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.
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.
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One chain, end to end
Each step is run by someone in the group, so quality is checked from the soil to the shelf.
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.
Marketplace
A platform being built to link farmers and buyers.
Four companies, one chain
Each company runs a part of the chain and signs off the same way.
- Mumita Agro ConsultancySets up and manages farms, trains farmers and runs the cold rooms and warehouses.A Mumita CompanyVisit
- Mumita FoodsProcesses and packs what the farmers grow, under its own name, LYDA and Mumi Chips.A Mumita CompanyVisit
- PraïsCooks it: catering, a restaurant in Buea and diet advice.A Mumita CompanyVisit
- Mumita MarketplaceWill link farmers and buyers directly as the platform opens.A Mumita CompanyVisit
- 580+
- hectares of farmland managed for clients
- 43
- irrigation systems installed
- 35+
- cooperatives in our network
- 10+
- countries our food has reached
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Proof, not promises
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.
What we hold ourselves to
- Show the work, in a photograph, a number or a live tool, instead of describing it.
- Publish only numbers we can source, and review them every quarter.
- Stock pictures never show a face, and never stand in for our products, places or events.
- One name everywhere: every company signs off as A Mumita Company.
- Speak the languages our partners and buyers work in.
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.
