KOPGT: Nurturing commercial agriculture growth for smallholder farmers
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KOPGT: Nurturing commercial
agriculture growth for smallholder
farmers
Kalangala Oil Palm Growers Trust (KOPGT) is a farming organization administering government
loans to farmers and providing fertilizer, seedlings, and other services to help smallholder
farmers grow their businesses. KOPGT also provides sales and marketing services for the
farmers, sharing knowledge on how to reduce postservice losses and helping farmers
participate in the production cycle for oil palm.
Through its work, KOPGT actively helps individuals move from subsistence farming into
commercial oil palm farming, significantly improving their livelihoods. As more farmers joined
the organization, it was important for KOPGT to have a robust sourcing and traceability
system linked to its business management data. The goal was to enable more efficiency and
effectiveness in its service delivery while empowering farmers with data-driven insights to
make more-informed decisions.
KOPGT: Nurturing commercial
agriculture growth for smallholder
farmers
Kalangala Oil Palm Growers Trust (KOPGT) is a farming organization administering government
loans to farmers and providing fertilizer, seedlings, and other services to help smallholder
farmers grow their businesses. KOPGT also provides sales and marketing services for the
farmers, sharing knowledge on how to reduce postservice losses and helping farmers
participate in the production cycle for oil palm.
Through its work, KOPGT actively helps individuals move from subsistence farming into
commercial oil palm farming, significantly improving their livelihoods. As more farmers joined
the organization, it was important for KOPGT to have a robust sourcing and traceability
system linked to its business management data. The goal was to enable more efficiency and
effectiveness in its service delivery while empowering farmers with data-driven insights to
make more-informed decisions.
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“SAP Rural Sourcing Management integrated with
SAP Business One is a game changer. We now have
access to trusted data to help make palm oil transactions
more transparent, efficient, and predictable for farmers
and buyers.”
Balironda David Mukasa, General Manager, Kalangala Oil Palm Growers Trust
Kalangala Oil Palm Growers Trust
Kalangala, Uganda
Industry
Agribusiness
Employees
33
Revenue
~US$15 million
Products and services
Farming organization
administration, marketing,
and sales
Featured solutions
SAP Business One and SAP Rural
Sourcing Management
5,921
Hectares of agricultural
land managed
100%
Unified reporting for
management and
stakeholders
Before: Challenges and opportunities
• Lack of trust and transparency from manual systems, accessible for few individuals and open to
manipulation
• Need to comply with Uganda’s National Environment Management Authority (NEMA) guidelines for
monitoring farmer plantings and areas of plantings
Why SAP
• SAP Rural Sourcing Management solution, an industry cloud solution, connecting smallholder farmers
to the agricultural value chain
• Combined geospatial and transactional data, allowing for more-detailed field and garden mapping
analysis and garden sales
• Integration framework connecting business management data from the SAP Business One solution
with smallholder business data from SAP Rural Sourcing Management
After: Value-driven results
• Built trust with farmers through improved data visibility, allowing farmers to access the information at
the click of a button
• Digitally recorded farmer plantings and areas of plantings in compliance with NEMA’s regulations
• Empowered the organization’s team to help farmers address specific production challenges brought
to light through data-driven insights
Embracing technology to support social transformation through
farming with SAP Rural Sourcing Management
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“SAP Rural Sourcing Management integrated with
SAP Business One is a game changer. We now have
access to trusted data to help make palm oil transactions
more transparent, efficient, and predictable for farmers
and buyers.”
Balironda David Mukasa, General Manager, Kalangala Oil Palm Growers Trust
Kalangala Oil Palm Growers Trust
Kalangala, Uganda
Industry
Agribusiness
Employees
33
Revenue
~US$15 million
Products and services
Farming organization
administration, marketing,
and sales
Featured solutions
SAP Business One and SAP Rural
Sourcing Management
5,921
Hectares of agricultural
land managed
100%
Unified reporting for
management and
stakeholders
Before: Challenges and opportunities
• Lack of trust and transparency from manual systems, accessible for few individuals and open to
manipulation
• Need to comply with Uganda’s National Environment Management Authority (NEMA) guidelines for
monitoring farmer plantings and areas of plantings
Why SAP
• SAP Rural Sourcing Management solution, an industry cloud solution, connecting smallholder farmers
to the agricultural value chain
• Combined geospatial and transactional data, allowing for more-detailed field and garden mapping
analysis and garden sales
• Integration framework connecting business management data from the SAP Business One solution
with smallholder business data from SAP Rural Sourcing Management
After: Value-driven results
• Built trust with farmers through improved data visibility, allowing farmers to access the information at
the click of a button
• Digitally recorded farmer plantings and areas of plantings in compliance with NEMA’s regulations
• Empowered the organization’s team to help farmers address specific production challenges brought
to light through data-driven insights
Embracing technology to support social transformation through
farming with SAP Rural Sourcing Management
90895enUS (24/01) © 2024 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. sap.com/terms-of-use
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Enabling trust through data transparency, helping communities to
increase household incomes and living standards
Kalangala Oil Palm Growers Trust (KOPGT) is working with communities in Central Uganda
to help them embrace commercial agriculture in place of subsistence farming practices.
An important part of its work centers on helping smallholder farmers embrace technology
and trust data-driven insights to address specific production challenges. To deliver these
important insights, KOPGT integrated the SAP Rural Sourcing Management solution with
the SAP Business One solution. SAP Rural Sourcing Management, an industry cloud
solution, also helps the organization comply with Uganda’s national guidelines for
monitoring farmer plantings and areas of plantings by making data more transparent.
KOPGT is also making use of garden mapping functionality offered by SAP Rural Sourcing
Management to understand the yield potential of each garden and monitor production
activity. As farmers need to repay government loans, by keeping gardens at maximum
production capacity, farmers are able to harvest maximum yields. And by allowing the
organization’s team to gather and manage data for analysis and decision-making, KOPGT
has a clear overview of individual farmer performance for benchmarking and productivity
tracking to support loan financing and repayment cycles.
Enabling trust through data transparency, helping communities to
increase household incomes and living standards
Kalangala Oil Palm Growers Trust (KOPGT) is working with communities in Central Uganda
to help them embrace commercial agriculture in place of subsistence farming practices.
An important part of its work centers on helping smallholder farmers embrace technology
and trust data-driven insights to address specific production challenges. To deliver these
important insights, KOPGT integrated the SAP Rural Sourcing Management solution with
the SAP Business One solution. SAP Rural Sourcing Management, an industry cloud
solution, also helps the organization comply with Uganda’s national guidelines for
monitoring farmer plantings and areas of plantings by making data more transparent.
KOPGT is also making use of garden mapping functionality offered by SAP Rural Sourcing
Management to understand the yield potential of each garden and monitor production
activity. As farmers need to repay government loans, by keeping gardens at maximum
production capacity, farmers are able to harvest maximum yields. And by allowing the
organization’s team to gather and manage data for analysis and decision-making, KOPGT
has a clear overview of individual farmer performance for benchmarking and productivity
tracking to support loan financing and repayment cycles.