Byeffe Foods Company Limited

byeffe is a lugisu word that literally means ours. we are a dully registered health food processing company established in october 2015 producing nutritious food products using pumpkin as the main ingredient with other blended cereals and grains. the founder’s passion for agriculture conflicted with low farm gate prices, limited market access, price fluctuation and expensive farm inputs among others. after graduation, fatuma namutosi conducted research and discovered pumpkins as long-forgotten crop, easy to grow and would give higher income than other crops except there was no market. value addition was the only way through which we would encourage local consumption of the crop. and from this, we have launched 8 pumpkin products ranging four four different blends of pumpkin porridge flour, pumpkin seed snacks, pumpkin seed oil , dry pumpkin leaves among others. through partnerships with national and international development partners, byeffe has enrolled over 5000 youth farmers int