Perry Opens New Ofce & Training Facility In Uganda

Perry Opens New Office & Training Facility In Uganda

Perry of Oakley Ltd., a Brish company with a 73 year heritage in the design, manufacture and installaon of grain handling, drying and storage equipment, is pleased to announce the establishment of Perry East Africa Ltd, with registered offices in Kampala, Uganda. This will complement its exisng Africa office, Perry Africa Ltd., registered in South Africa. This is a clear indicaon of the importance Perry of Oakley Ltd., through its internaonal subsidiary Perry Engineering Services Ltd., places on the ever-expanding African market. David Perry, the third-generaon owner and Managing Director of Perry of Oakley Ltd., is pleased to announce that Perry East Africa will be opening a training facility in Uganda in March 2021. The aim of the facility is to provide hands on training for customers' employees in the professional operaon of grain handling and storage facilies. It will also give the opportunity for potenal customers to view their products and even spend me with the operators before they make purchasing decisions. It is intended that the training will be without charge, as an indicaon of Perry's commitment to enhance the post harvest knowledge base in Uganda and East Africa as a whole, which means that as soon as a customer receives their Perry equipment they are already experienced in its use and the theories behind post harvest technology. David Perry said “Since my early visits to Uganda and Sub Saharan Africa as a whole I have been excited by the agricultural prospects in these countries and we look forward to not only being able to promote our products at the training facility but to also enhance the overall post harvest knowledge in Uganda and East Africa as me goes on”. Perrys look forward to working with their exisng partners and customers as they grow in East Africa.

For further informaon please contact Rod.Watson@perryengineering.com.

Biological Solutions Are Impacting Agriculture

Madumbi Sustainable Agriculture, KZN based market leaders in BioManagement and BioSmulant soluons, aims to change the way food is grown.

This is the vision of Madumbi's founder and CEO, Andre Fox. Andre is a visionary leader in the agricultural industry, recognised for successfully pioneering and navigang the biological conversaon in an environment resistant to change. Today, there is no doubt that change is upon us. Environmental issues are at the forefront of every conversaon and the current Covid19 pandemic is set to challenge every norm. Now, more than ever, healthy, sustainable food producon is in the spotlight. Bioraonal soluons are expected to play a crical role in meeng this demand. The biocontrol market is growing globally at between 15 – 17% CAGR. The organic market and the biocontrol market are oen incorrectly perceived to be the same, however it's important to note that the organic market is not driving the rapid growth of biocontrol. The organic market is growing at 11% CAGR and represents 10% of

and the need for biological products as resistance management partners. 'There's a much higher level of acceptance now than there was ten to fieen years ago. Today's consumer is demanding residue-free, nutrient-dense food to feed their families and be safe doing so.' – Andre Fox, Madumbi CEO The use of biocontrol products is not expected to displace tradional crop the biocontrol market use1 . protecon products in the foreseeable There are many factors contribung to the rapid growth within biocontrol with some of the main ones being: 1. Consumer demand 2. The unsustainable cost of developing tradional pescides 3. Development of pest resistance 1future . However, the growth is ancipated by the increased usage of biocontrol products within Integrated Pest Management (IPM) systems – a combined program of biocontrol and tradional products, for the best costbenefit, yield producon and sustainability