Maize Uganda’s Biggest Staple Foods

Maize is one of Uganda’s-Africa’s biggest staple foods and is consumed by almost every household within Uganda as a country and across East Africa. While white maize is the most consumed, Divine Grain Millers Uganda Ltd. is still producing the maize product each year in large quantities. This is because maize is great for both people and animals. However few people are aware of the benefits of maize. Maize is known to be nutritious although it has been given a bad reputation as being food for aid purposes especially here in Uganda East Africa.

Maize is nutritious and is filled with Vitamin A. This vitamin is somewhat lacking in the foods consumed throughout Africa, but is incredibly important in fighting off blindness and various diseases. The proof of its value lies in the healthy people who eat this meal as a staple part of their day to day diet.

According to Divine Grain Millers Uganda Ltd. Maize is not just for feeding people in Uganda, it is also a necessary food for livestock as observed largely in East Africa.

One of the biggest factors encouraging maize exporters to produce and distribute so much maize each year is that maize is a great food source for stock animals. Every part of the plant can be used for some purpose or other. The cob itself is usually harvested for human consumption but the stalks can be fed to animals while surplus grain can be used to feed poultry.

Like we mentioned before, the uses of maize are endless, and the many uses are keeping maize starch manufacturers busy ensuring there is enough to go around. Maize is found for sale all over Uganda and across East Africa, but you need to make sure that you select a supplier who can always assist with providing you with the same products and the same affordable prices, and that’s why Divine Grain Millers Uganda Ltd. is open to you for business.

Eating maize is a leeway into health especially starch. Its mineral range includes zinc, which promotes wound healing at a proportion of 5 percent per serving. The magnesium margin, essential for bone maintenance is 10 percent per serving. The manganese levels of the daily value stand at 8 percent. The range of vitamins includes folate which comes at 11 percent of the daily requirements. The vitamin C margin is 8 percent per serving, essential for providing substantial protection against disease. The thiamine margin is also relatively high at 13 percent of the daily value.

We derive our maize from all parts of the country particularly, but also from our maize farms in Northern Uganda. Some of our sources grow their cereal on patches of land that are less than two acres in extent. They use farmyard manure and do not apply pesticides on their farms to reduce harmful effects.

At Divine Millers Uganda Ltd. we do our maize harvesting by manual means. We begin at the 5th month after planting the grain, for the late maturing cultivars. Our well-trained team only picks fully-developed pollen-filled ears. These are just between the milky and firmness stage which ensures proper drying. The maize usually has a moisture level of about 18 percent at this juncture. Our workers relieve the ears from the sheaths carefully while retaining the stalks. They place the cobs in baskets for delivery to the carting vehicles on their way to the shelling area.

At Divine Millers Uganda Ltd. we shell our maize ears immediately after delivery to the packing station. After this, we lay them in the mesh for drying in grain form. Sometimes when sun-drying does not produce fast results, we blow hot water onto them to fasten the drying process. We heat the grains at temperatures just above 30 degrees Celsius. This leaves the moisture content at less than 12 percent. The artificial drying means faster and great for urgent orders: with it, we place the seeds in single layers in bins before blowing in hot air.

At Divine Millers Uganda Ltd. our packages of maize come in 50-kilo capacities. We use commercial sacks made of natural and synthetic materials including sisal and plastic as well as nylon. We include film linings in all our synthetic bags as the sisal ones have natural aeration. We feature produce labels in the final packages inclusive of the packing date, the net weight and the country of origin.

Our storage parameters for our maize are similar to those in traditional granaries at room temperature. We maintain 25 degrees Celsius while the moisture level stays at less than 14 percent.This careful combination keeps out the probability of aflatoxin or mold formation.

We also transport our maize at the same temperature range from the farms to the Kampala warehouses via our special trucks.

Therefore, if you would like to avail arguably the most important cereal in sub-Saharan Africa, then Divine Millers Uganda Ltd. will be a definite choice. We avail it from both family growers across Uganda as well as from our farms spread across Northern Uganda region. We try as much as possible to maintain little residual levels due to the minimal utility of chemical sprays. Besides, we keep your tonnage as our priority by liaising with sources to meet the quantity in surplus.