Company objectives
•Promotion of Value Addition of pumpkins to increase incomes of youth and women in Uganda.
•To empower women with employable skills for self sustenance.
•Enhancing agriculture to promote food security .
•To increase awareness of commercial and nutritional values of pumpkins and reduce malnutrition and all related diseases in the world.
•Promote integrated farming systems
that protect the environment.
•Strengthen governance, management and human resources to steer the growth of the company. Core values
• Transparency and accountability
• Community participation
• Satisfying the demands of our customers
• Customer is our boss
• Quality products produced
• Respect for one another and give timely feed back
• Teamwork
• Trust in God
• Honesty and integrity
Our products
JOSMAK International (U) Limited deals in the following products
• Pumpkin Juice
• Pumpkin Wine
• Pumpkin green powder
• Pumpkin roasted seeds.
• Pumpkin roasted seeds powder
• Pumpkin Ginger beverage
• Pumpkin Cinnamon beverage
All these products contain nutritional supplements good for health boosting. Other services provided
• Provides training and mentorship in Pumpkin value addition
• Creates market linkages for pumpkins
• Sole provider of organic pumpkin products in Uganda
History of the Enterprise
Pumpkin Value Addition Enterprise was started by rural women in Lukira village, Kampiri parish, Myanzi Sub-county, Mubende District. This group purposely started to organize vulnerable women in rural areas to find alternative ways of increasing their household income, food security and nutritional values to reduce malnutrition among their children and the surrounding areas. It also started to address unemployment among rural women and also to address environmental challenges through active engagement in sustainable development activities such as planting more pumpkins to reduce land degradation. This women group lacked value addition skills, improved seeds, marketing and financial literacy, had no access to financial loans and practicing poor farming methods. In addition majority were not educated and believed poverty was inherited and had no hope for tomorrow. Mindset of the women who think one who has not attained higher/ formal education cannot run a business. With all these challenges undressed, JOSMAK International (U) Limited, found it necessary to initiate a company that directly empowers youth and women to fully participate in their self -coordinated development for self- reliance.
