CGA Service Directory
Representation Services
The Association engages in evidence-based lobbying and advocacy processes by proactively and continuously engaging in policy-making processes for contributing to the creation of favourable agribusiness environment. This pillar speaks to policy research and the packaging of well-researched arguments to support the membership position and air the members’ voices
Technical Services
Through this pillar, CGA provides best-in-class capacity building and training to members, enabling them to adopt good agricultural practices contributing to increased production, productivity, and profits. This is achieved through provision of advisory and extension, customized trainings, setting up of demonstration and trial learning sites for agri-innovations and technologies, hosting pre and post-season meetings including farmer field days and agri-expos, and peer-to-peer exchange learning tours.
Advisory, extension, training, learning, and demonstration sites
Economic Services
This pillar seeks to deliver on effective management of the cereal supply chain end-to-end through product bundling to support members to engage in profitable and sustainable agribusinesses. The bundling of services spun linkage to input procurement, finance and insurance, output markets, equipment and mechanization services, post-harvest handling and management including storage and warehousing technologies, farm management services, aflatoxin testing, logistics, and transport services, consultancy services and soil testing and analysis services among other services. This is delivered through Business-to-Business Forums (B2Bs) and Business to Customers (B2C) Forums
Cereal Growers SACCO Society Ltd, CGA offers farmers an opportunity to save and get affordable and viable credit for their agricultural activities.
When farmers come together, they have a higher bargaining power. Therefore, CGA helps to bring farmers together in the aggregation of crop produce for easier joint marketing. While working together with specific development partners, CGA trains and facilitates farmers to aggregate and jointly market their produce.
We facilitate our farmer members to procure farm inputs in bulk thereby attracting quantity discounts while reducing incidences of buying fake inputs.
Information services
This pillar delivers on providing information to support data-driven farm management. The Association provides timely information and member actionable insights to support cereal farm, financial, and supply chain management. This is the information for the agribusiness planning focus of the Association.
Through The Sower Magazine, a quarterly publication of CGA, we share crucial information to farmers such as Agri-tips, weather advisory and other farm economic observatory. Other information sharing platforms include The Cereal Notebook, a monthly e-publication that shares key highlights within the cereal sub-sector. We also have a bulk SMS platform that helps disburse information to over 150,000 cereal farmers in our database.