The BUSINESS INCUBATION THEATER
Welcome to EHCAI
Excel Hort Consult Agribusiness Incubator [EHCAI] is an Agribusiness Incubation and Innovation Hub that was established in 1999 in Uganda and is operating in East and Central Africa.
Business Incubation Management
EHCAI BIM model responds to three business challenges which include:
- How to start a business
- How to manage the business
- How to sustain the business
Agri-finance Enterprise Development
Access to financial products and services is critical for startups, SME, youth and women incubate as well as emerging entrepreneurs.
Agri-input and output Market Development
The market is a driver of all economies globally. EHCAI embarked on supporting Agri-input and output market development as one way of boosting the sustainability of start-ups, SMEs, and enterprises.
Agri-food Enterprise Development
Agro-industrialization through value addition and processing is critical for economic transformation and sustainable business development.
Agri-tourism Enterprise Development
The range of services includes home tourism, special training, mentorship support, profiling, linkages, networking session, tour guiding, campsite night, special business events, farm to farm exchange learning visits
Skills & Talent Development
EHCAI offers opportunities for skills and talent development of youth, women, start-ups, SMEs, special groups and enterprises using the business incubation model.
Agri-business and Natural Resource Management
This product focuses on how start-ups, SMEs and existing companies as well as societies should govern and develop their water and environment resources for employment and wealth creation and improving people’s livelihood.
ICT Innovation & Technology Commercialization
At the agribusiness incubation and Innovation Hub.
Our Services
Director general's message
Welcome to Excel Hort Consult Agribusiness Incubator (EHCAI)
Greetings everybody!! On behalf of the EHCAI Board of Directors and Management, we would like to extend a vote of thanks to the EHCAI prominent clients, partners, staff, and associates. We give special honour to the Board of Trustees for their wise advice and decisions. The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams, and that is why EHCAI continues to welcome mutually beneficial collaborations in order to achieve EHCAI 10-year goals.
About
OUR IMPACT
Excel Hort Consult Agribusiness Incubator (EHCAI) is a business incubation and innovation Centre located in Mbarara in South Western Uganda.
OUR EXPERTISE
EHCAI is a technical partner for Business Incubation Management with the Ministry of Agriculture, Animal Industry and Fisheries, Ministry Gender, Labour and Social Development, Ministry of Water and Environment, Ministry of Trade, Industry and Cooperatives, Ministry of Science and Technology, Operation Wealth Creation and Ministry of Education and Sports in Uganda.
EHCAI's VISION
To be a leading incubation and innovation hub for job and employment creation in agribusiness trade and investment.
EHCAI's MISSION
To contribute to the competitiveness of African agribusiness and Agro-industry in the global market through sustainable business incubation & enterprise development support services.
About
Products & Services
Training and Mentorship
Agri-food Enterprise Development
Training & Mentorship
Linkages & Mentorship
Projects
Featured Projects
EHCAI continues to support farmers with agribusiness incubation services and currently, over 10 farms have been transformed into agribusiness incubator hubs, for example, CRK Agrofarm enterprise in Rukiga District, Rwengaju Older Persons’ Agribusiness in Kabarole District, Rweshande Modern farmers in Ntungamo District, Kirungu Model Farmers in Gomba District, and Caka Divine valley mixed farm in Mbarara district.
FAO
Supporting Agribusiness Growth And Development Through Enhanced Marketing Systesms And Financial Access In Kabale And Bugiri Districts(SAGDEMVA)
NAGRC
Consultancy service to train staff, partners and Beneficiaries in Entrepreneurship and Business Incubation Management
WWF
Support Communities to establish Alternative Income Generating activities for Improved Livelihoods in the Mid-Stream of River Nyamwamba
A QUICK glimpse into our work
Demonstration Farm
Brief about the demonstration farm activities and projects at EHCAI
LATEST NEWS
EHCAI in the Press
EHCAI trains 20 Farmers in Agronomy from Irrigation Scheme Districts
Excel Hort Agribusiness Incubator on 25th August, welcomed over 20 farmers to its head office located in Biharwe, Mbarara, Masaka …
EHCAI hosts Fort Portal Coffee Farming Family
Excel Hort Consult Agribusiness Incubator today 6th August 2021, hosted a coffee-farming family in an afternoon that featured a project …
UTB partners with Agribusiness Enterprises
The Uganda Tourism Board (UTB) through its Tourism product development and diversification programme, partnered with Uganda’s Agribusiness enterprises to support …