Our Story
Native Group of Companies (NAGO) is consultancy, farmer, and trading company, uniquely positioned in the Ugandan Agri-Business industry engaging in high-quality specialty cocoa, coffee and vanilla sourcing, post-harvest handling from selective origins, market access/linkages, and capacity building & coaching of SMEs, logistics/forwarding among others. NAGO provides its services in other countries (Democratic republic of Congo, Cameroon, Tanzania, Rwanda) and has established partnerships with the international private sector (ESCO, OLAM, ICAM CHOCOLATE, SILVA CACAO, BONNAT CHOCOLATIER, ZOTO, XOCO), NGOs (Trias, Rikolto, ITC) and public sector (UCDA).
NAGO works closely with farmers organized in cooperative societies and Unions across the country by providing practical business management coaching and trainings in Good Agricultural Practices (GAPs), Financial and Administrative management of cooperatives to market access and linkages. Through holistic trainings on good agricultural practices and knowing the daily challenges of rural communities.
Our Mission:
To create distinctive value.
Our approach is to be trustworthy, creative, and enterprising.
Performance measures are:
- engaged employees
- satisfied customers
- enriched communities
- and profitable
Our Vision:
Our vision is to unite, challenge, and inspire everything we do.
We will drive NAGO to achieve its vision for the future By embracing and acting on the following ideas, .
Our purpose is to position ourselves as the most reliable source for agricultural produce.
Work through Our mission to create a distinctive value.
Our vision includes promises with the ambition of improving the livelihoods of farmers and their families and communities by facing up to the challenges of sustainability and offer more benefits to all our stakeholders by creating a real and lasting difference in origin countries while also securing the future supply of agricultural commodities.
How we work?
By working.....
directly with producers/ farmers to improve and produce high quality agricultural products by embracing good agricultural practices, good post-harvest handling practices, that are traceable, climate resilient and sustainable, good storage, and logistics.
By practicing......
smart climate agriculture and good agricultural practices to reduce product rejection and wastage due to low quality, product price fluctuations, to maintain and improve climate and soil fertility, working with farmers to increase regenerative agriculture and reduce environmental impact, to improve production and productivity of plots and trees or garden, to attract high farm gate prices.
By guaranteeing......
full traceability and sustainability for its products and partners through training and encouraging our farmers to have an Internal Management and Control Systems and record keeping (IMS/ICS) to boost Ugandan products competitiveness on the world market and to improve farmers/producers’ income and livelihoods.
By positioning......
Ugandan high quality agricultural produce in the exquisite market in the international market space by attending international trade shows and exhibitions, market access, market intelligence, Business to Business meetings, partnerships and joint ventures with international organisations and companies, giving invitations to potential investors among others as way to promote Export. Adding value to boost the favourable terms of trade for the nation where we encourage more import substitution and promote exports. And preparing cooperative unions, cooperative societies and private business for certification (Organic, Utz/rainforest, and Fair trade).
