BUSINESS PLAN. Part 4.

# HOW TO WRITE A BUSINESS PROPOSAL AND GET FUNDS FROM ANY WHERE. PART 4.

E) OWNERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT.



The Afrifood is a private owned by Robert Kulaba as the Managing Director, I decided to make this business because am an agriculturist mainly in growing crops since my childhood at my Aunt’s place experiencing in this business starting to trade the food crops produce on additional of studying agriculture and commerce four years from 2011 to 2014, attending agricultural shows in Jinja this has given me a great power over this agricultural business per now the business is a Sole Proprietorship soon becoming a Corporative with a Limited Liability.

All the activities taking place by the Afrifood business will be observed and directed by the Managing Director per perhaps by his Supervisors. The Branch Manager, Business trainer, Recipient, Supervisor and Cashier at a main branch or other branches of Afrifood business will be all appointed by the Managing Director acting as a Human Resource Manager, this kind of administration will continue until there is a change in the management but I see it perfect per now. The payment of the workers will be done according to their work this will be done on a weekly bases to increase the quality of work, the Afrifood business employs experience in work ability.

This is done with advice from business consultants and the business will continue getting advice from experts where tough comes.



F) OPERATIONS PLAN.

All the operations are taking and are going to take place in Buikwe district (Buikwe District is bordered by Kayunga District to the north, Jinja District to the east, Buvuma District to the southeast, and Mukono District to the west. The district headquarters at Buikwe are located

approximately 60 kilometres by main road east of Kampala , the capital city of Uganda and finally southeast of Lugazi, the nearest large town)

Then after getting food crops from farmers, they are then transported to the stores for processing(grinding) then to the ready market due to high demand of the food crops products, the machines keep working day and night.



The following are the steps taken during the operations of Afrifood business and this is mainly;



1. labour:



In this business (Afrifood), there are two types of labour that is direct and indirect labour.



a. Indirect labour.

This is mainly the local farmers in different areas of the country, they are of great value as all most the operations is based on them besides the provision of ready market to them always farmers grow their several food crops at both large and small scale in rural area with a concept of selling them to the rural traders by which Urban traders purchase the produce then transported to the urban center for processing into their products. Hence in this Afrifood has a way to purchase the crops from farmers.



b. Direct Labour.

This include agents, sellers, millers, packers, and transporters.

Agents; they can be in different places mainly in rural areas in order to purchase food crops from farmers this is usually cheap as the agents of Afrifood they can operate with their own money before reselling the food crops produce to Afrifood, next is transportation.

Transporter; there are cheap rental Lorries which can be used to transport, this can be on regular intervals until this business will own its Lorries or carriers, during the transportation of these produce(unprocessed food crops) from the agents in the local areas it’s a must the Managing Director to be being involved.

Millers and Packers; On a milling station, there should be 3 millers and 2 packers per milling machine besides the organizing team, then after the products are ready for sell.

Sellers; These help in the selling of the Afrifood products to the ready market on a commission percentage bases. (All the supervision workers are the duty of the Managing director with the help of some employed supervisors).



2. Machines.



The machines required for the running to produce high quality, I confirmed this by visiting different milling companies which confirmed to me the difference in the quality of the food crops products produced besides this, I acquired the information of China North Machine Co. Ltd Kampala about the machines, the Afrifood requires the machines with the character like stainless, automatic with high technology in order to produce high quality products.

The following types of machines are needed to operate the Afrifood business.



For maize.

This include the Hammer mill, Maize cleaner, Maize thresher and Flour maize mill, the set of maize processing machine costs Ushs. 18,250,000 ($5,000).



For Rice.

This include the Combine destoner, Rice elevator, Rice thresher, Rice Grader and Rice Mill, the set of rice processing machine costs Ushs. 14,600,000 ($4,000)



For Cassava and Millet.

This include Cassava cruncher, Flour cassava mill and Millet milling machine, the set of both millet and cassava costs Ushs. 9,125,000 ($2,500).



For groundnuts.

Here are various machines which makes different grades of groundnuts products but there is a famous ones like Groundnuts crusher and Flour groundnuts mill, the both the two machines costs Ushs. 7,300,000 ($2,000).

(All the above information was collected from China North Machine Co. Ltd Kampala).



G) FINANCIAL PLAN.



As I have did a bit on this business as a trader of food crops produce, I have tested on the income profit margin and the more the input the more operations development hence the more the profit margin.

Using Equity bank, all the income input, out, and the net savings all will be controlled by the equity bank this will provide a development of the Afrifood business, with great experience of savings which will enable the input to the growth of business.

The Balance sheet, Cashflow statement and Income statement will be used this very year to easy the financial counting of the business including; Expenses, Anticipated cash, Revenue, Assets and liabilities. For Balance sheet is being calculated but still the business is negligible. The more the quantity produced and sold the more the profits hence reducing the expenses incurred.

All the financial operations of this year will be in a clear form as the business will have moved on a step.





H) FUTURE PLAN.


My dream making is Afrifood business the leading, slowly by slowly l will make it by the near future, the Afrifood will have different outlet within the country and in the neighborhood countries this would will be on with a passionate, determined and persistent heart due to the doing of this business for a while I have observed that the more the operating size the more profits and the more development of the Afrifood business.

This will be done through partnerships, investment, loans and government support. Planning to make the greatest business with several branches in the country,



The main branch will be based in Buikwe district the following will be required at the branch.

-An industrial building which will act as a store and processing place.

-The different machine required for processing.

-Branch Lorries.( All this will not be done in one day but by experience all things will be done, starting as a small business lesser will be required at the start, by the near future all things will become materialized into physical form).





I) CONCLUSION.



All in all, the Afrifood business is 100% of success, as I have carried out all the needed research to create this business in Uganda as the Managing Director.

ROBERT KULABA,
MANAGING DIRECTOR.


Thank you for reading.