Beyond The Harvest; Building the Business of Agriculture: Inside PRO Seed’s Push to Make South Sudanese Agriculture Profitable
By Alan ClementCommunications Officer, PRO Seed Ltd. Feature Friday | The People Behind PRO Seed Agriculture begins in the field, but the business of agriculture does not end there. A successful harvest still has to find a market. Grain has to move. Products have to be processed. Farmers have to earn. Consumers have to buy. […]
When One Department Stumbles, the Farmer Feels It First: How Operations Keeps the Chain Intact
By Alan ClementCommunications Officer, PRO Seed Ltd. Feature Friday | The People Behind PRO Seed A company is easy to describe on an organogram: boxes, lines, departments, reporting order. What the chart cannot show is that all of it has to happen in the same week — seed going into the ground at Yambio, a […]
“I Don’t Fear My Maize Will Rot Anymore — I Have a Buyer”
How PRO Seed’s demonstration farms are reshaping one farmer’s approach to commercial agriculture Farmer: Rodah Justin TabanLocation: Kuanga, Maridi County, Western Equatoria State, South SudanFocus: Farmer training, improved planting practices and commercial maize farmingIntervention: PRO Seed Ltd. demonstration farms and maize value-chain programme “We just planted for food, whatever little we get. There was nothing […]
Hiring for Weather, Not Just Certificates: The Manager Building PRO Seed’s Culture
By Alan ClementCommunications Officer, PRO Seed Ltd. Feature Friday | The People Behind PRO Seed A company is built not only in its fields, offices or production facilities, but also through the people who make its daily operations possible. Behind every hectare planted, tonne harvested, bag sold and product processed is a person whose commitment, […]
Beyond the Sale: Serving Farmers and Growing the Business
By Alan ClementCommunications Officer, PRO Seed Ltd. Feature Friday | The People Behind PRO Seed A sale is usually measured at the counter—a receipt printed, money exchanged, a bag of seed handed over. But in agriculture, that transaction is not the end of the story. It is barely the prologue. When a farmer walks into […]
Boots in the Soil: The Officer Who Turns PRO Seed’s Plans Into a Farmer’s First Successful Harvest
By Alan ClementCommunications Officer, PRO Seed Ltd. Feature Friday | The People Behind PRO Seed A strategy is written in an office in Juba. A harvest happens somewhere else entirely — in a field, in the heat, with a farmer who has already decided what he thinks about advice from town. Agriculture is usually explained […]
Between the farmer who needs fair pay and the investor who needs returns: The Finance Manager Walking the Line
By Alan ClementCommunications Officer, PRO Seed Ltd. Feature Friday | The People Behind PRO Seed The humming baseline of a growing agribusiness isn’t found only in the seed production fields of Yambio or the processing warehouses in Nesitu. It lives in the quiet, precise decisions made behind a desk in Juba—where capital deployment, risk mitigation, […]
From Hybrid Seed to Household Flour: Inside PRO Seed’s Push for South Sudanese Industrial Autonomy
By Alan ClementCommunications Officer, PRO Seed Ltd. Feature Friday | The People Behind PRO Seed Woja Isaac Enoch, Managing Director of PRO Seed Ltd (C) in a discussion with his team | Alan Across a wooden desk stacked with notebooks, an active laptop, the atmosphere in the room feels less like a corporate executive office […]
Training of Seed CEOs on Seed Business Management by IFDC
5 days training of seed company CEOs on Seed Business Management, facilitated by IFDC, in Royal Palace Hotel, from Monday 23rd to Friday 27th Sept 2024
Maize Seed Cob – Sorting
Farmers sorting maize seed cobs in Yambio