Asili Agriculture

What Asili Agriculture does

Asili Agriculture is an integrated food security platform headquartered in Kampala, Uganda, operating since 2012 across regional hubs in Western and Northern Uganda. The company's offering combines on-farm production through its Asili Farms innovation units—where climate-smart agronomic protocols based on conservation agriculture are developed for maize, soybean, sunflower, and beans—with a marketplace platform that aggregates produce from partnered small-scale and large-scale producers for sale to agricultural commodity buyers and food system stakeholders.

The core technology is agronomic rather than digital: proprietary climate-smart protocols developed on Asili's own innovation farms and transferred to producers through bundled services that include inputs, training, and post-harvest handling. Physical hub infrastructure in Western and Northern Uganda provides aggregation, storage, and handling capacity, while the marketplace layer connects producers to commodity buyers and unlocks access to high-value markets that individual smallholders could not reach independently. According to the company, these combined operations supply quality products reaching over one million East Africans annually.

Asili earns revenue through a transaction-based model on produce aggregation and sales, supplemented by bundled agricultural services. Its customer base spans three primary segments—small-scale Ugandan producers (supply side), large-scale producers (supply side), and agricultural commodity buyers (demand side)—with inputs and service providers operating as a secondary partner segment. The company appears to be privately held and founder-led, with no disclosed institutional investors, funding rounds, or parent company in the available data.

Name

Asili Agriculture

Legal name

Asili Agriculture

Website

https://asili.ag

Company type

Private

Founded year

2012

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Asili Agriculture is an integrated food security platform operating in Uganda since 2012. It combines climate-smart production on its own innovation farms with a hub-based marketplace that aggregates maize, soybean, sunflower, and beans from smallholder and large-scale producers for sale to commodity buyers across East Africa.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Agricultural Services

NAICS

Oilseed and Grain Farming (1111), Oilseed and Grain Combination Farming (111191), Soil Preparation, Planting, and Cultivating (115112)

SIC

Agricultural Services (700), Agricultural Production-Crops (100)

akta.pro primary industry

Carbon, Sustainability & Farm Certification Support (Agro-Environmental Advisory) (AFACABAL)

akta.pro secondary industries

Sustainable Agriculture & Food Systems (Fair Trade, Food Access, Regenerative) (BPAGALAD), Agriculture & Food Security Development (BPAGABAB), Sustainable Agriculture & Food Systems (BPAGAGAI)

Keywords

• Smallholder farmer services
• Climate-smart agronomy
• Produce aggregation
• Agricultural land management
• Agricultural marketplace

Headquarters

HQ city

Western Uganda

HQ country

Uganda

HQ region

Africa

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Operations, Personnel, Supply Chain, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Produce aggregation and sales: Asili aggregates produce from small-scale producers, handles, stores, and sells to agricultural commodity buyers. The company extends bundled services including agricultural land management solutions, transferring capability and know-how to producers while earning revenue from produce transactions.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels1 record

Core offering

Asili Agriculture runs an integrated food security platform for East Africa that combines Asili Farms (innovation farms developing climate-smart agronomic protocols for maize, soybean, sunflower, and beans), Agricultural Land Management Solutions (land preparation and management for producers), and Marketplace Solutions (produce aggregation and trade connecting producers with commodity buyers). Its bundled offering pairs know-how transfer, land services, and guaranteed offtake for both small-scale and large-scale producers in Uganda.

Product overview

Asili Agriculture is an integrated food security platform for East Africa that operates as a unified platform combining agricultural production with marketplace services. The core offering includes Asili Farms (innovation farms developing climate-smart agronomic protocols for maize, soybean, sunflower, and beans), Agricultural Land Management Solutions (bundled services transferring agronomic capability to producers), and Marketplace Solutions (sourcing, aggregating, handling and storing produce to connect producers with buyers). The company extends a wide range of bundled services through hubs in Western and Northern Uganda to empower farmers and enable them to access high-value markets.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Quantifiable outcome

• Feeds over 1 million East Africans annually

Named customers1 record

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature1 record

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves4 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Others

• Root Capital: Impact-focused agricultural lender and advisory to smallholder enterprises in East Africa; adjacent ecosystem participant whose borrower/clients compete with and overlap Asili's farmer base.
• Bidco Africa: Large East African agribusiness and commodity buyer; relevant as a potential buyer counterpart rather than competitor, illustrating the kind of large-scale off-taker Asili's marketplace serves.

Broad incumbents

• TechnoServe: International nonprofit implementing market-based agricultural development and agronomy programs across East Africa, including smallholder value-chain work that overlaps with Asili's land management and marketplace mandate.
• Heifer International: Global nonprofit working on smallholder farmer development in East Africa, including market access and climate-smart agriculture — broader in scope but addresses the same food-system transformation Asili targets.

Direct peers

• Twiga Foods: Kenya-based B2B food distribution platform that aggregates produce from smallholder farmers and sells to commodity buyers, mirroring Asili's marketplace-and-aggregation model in a neighboring East African market.
• Apollo Agriculture: Kenya-based agritech that combines agronomic advice, input financing, and market access for smallholder farmers, comparable in its bundled-services-plus-marketplace approach to Asili's platform model.
• Tulaa: Kenyan agritech marketplace connecting smallholder farmers to inputs, financing, and produce buyers; closely comparable to Asili's marketplace arm in scope and target customer.
• One Acre Fund (TUBURA in Uganda): Large social enterprise operating in Uganda that delivers bundled agricultural services — inputs, training, and market access — to smallholder farmers, directly overlapping Asili's hub-based bundled-service offering.

Regional players

• Babban Gona: Nigeria-based smallholder agriculture platform offering training, inputs, and aggregation services; comparable in model to Asili but operating in a different geography within Sub-Saharan Africa.

Emerging players

• Wefarm (now part of Heifer International): Farmer-to-farmer information network in East Africa that has expanded into input distribution and market access — overlapping with Asili's advisory and marketplace functions in the same smallholder segment.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/asili-ag

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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