Kakira at a glance

Sweetening Uganda since 1930!

• Part of the Madhvani Group of Companies.
• Providing a livelihood directly and indirectly for over 100,000 individuals.
• Crushing over 6,000 tons of cane per day.
• Producing more than 150,000 tons of sugar each year, with 10.5 months continuous operation.
• Employing over 7,500 persons.
• 10,000 ha of land under cane on own nucleus estate.
• Over 7,000 outgrower farmers supplying sugar cane.
• Just completed major expansion program - increasing outgrowers land under cane to 19,000 ha.
• Social infrastructure includes staff housing, electrical distribution systems, roads, a 75 bed hospital and 12 schools for employees' children.
• Generating 22 MW of electric power on 24 hours/day basis - of which 12MW is supplied to Uganda’s national grid.