1. Presidential Initiative on Banana Industrial Development.

2. H.E., The President of the Republic of Uganda is the Patron.

3. Governed by a Board and Management Committee.

4. Collaborators include; Professionals, private and public sectors and farmers.

5. Main areas of focus: - Value addition & Quality control operations, Marketing & Rural enterprise debt, Production.

Vision
State-of-the-art banana processing enterprises in Uganda, producing value-added matooke products with competitive market strength both locally and globally, manned by rural farmers/ enterprenuers.

Mission
To offer rural farmers technical/ scientific services, outreach and Research & Development opportunities in:

* Sustainable banana production
* Sustainable and competitive value addition to bananas
* Business and product process development
* Product quality assurance and safety
* Process/ product technology transfer and commercialisation.

Goal of the Project
To facilitate the development of state-of-the-art banana-based sustainable processing enterprises applying Technology Business Incubator (TBI) and Industrial Technology Park (ITP) system principles to help farmers/ enterpreneurs to sustainably add value to matooke to yield profitable and competitive products.