INDUSTRIAL & BUSINESS PARKS
UIA was given a mandate to establish 22 Industrial and Business parks throughout the Country to create jobs and add value to locally available raw materials. Out of these, Uganda Investment Authority has managed to establish the following industrial parks:
KIBP is located in Wakiso, Mukono district, its our largest industrial park with acreage of 2,200, the park is fully allocated and operational.
For more information on the allocation in KIBP view the KIBP Master Plan and interactive Webmap and KIBP Video
Luzira Industrial and Business Park is located in Kampala district with an Acreage of 70, the park is operational and land is fully allocated.
Read more about the Luzira Park Master Plan and Layout
Bweyogerere Industrial and Business Park is located in Kampala district with an Acreage of 50, the park is operational and land is fully allocated.
Jinja Industrial and Business Park is located in Jinja district with an Acreage of 182, the park is operational and 90% of the land here has been allocated and investors are in final stages of plan approval.
Read more about the Jinja Park Master Plan
Kasese Industrial and Business Park is located in Kasese district with an Acreage of 217. The park is available for allocation to prospective investors.
Read more about the Kasese Park Master plan
Soroti Industrial and Business Park is located in Soroti District with an acreage of 219, Allocations in this park are going on, so far one factory, Teso fruit factory is under construction. Read more about the Soroti Park Master Plan
Mbale Industrial and Business Park is located in Mbale district with an acreage of 619, Compensation process still going on which will be followed up by master planning. Read more about the Mbale Park Master Plan
Karamoja Industrial and Business Park is located in Moroto Napak with an acreage of 417. The master Planning process is ongoing and plans for UDC to establish a cement factory are underway. Read more about the Karamoja Park Master Plan
Kashari Agricultural land is located in Mbarara district with an acreage of 147.3. The land is available for allocation to potential investors
The SME Park is located in Mbarara District on an acreage of 12.2, it consists of structures available for letting by SMEs
The Presidential Opinion concerning Zonal Industrialization of Uganda.
In his letter written on 8th February 2007, the President highlighted that in Point No.5 of the NRM 10-point programme stated: “Building an integrated, independent and self-sustaining economy”. Before, the country was still exporting 4 million bags of coffee unprocessed coffee, 200,00 bales of unprocessed cotton, still importing processed juice from South Africa and 10 million metric tonnes of bananas just being consumed and 40% of this would just rot away. 80,000 litres of milk were being poured away on a daily basis.
The president therefore proposed to the Planning Commission of the Ministry of Finance to do the following:
- Initially develop an Industrial Park for each of these towns: Arua, Lira, Gulu, Soroti, Moroto, Mbale, Tororo, Iganga, Jinja, Masaka, Luwero-Nakaseke, Nakasongola, Mbarara, Bushenyi, Kabale, Kasese, Fort-Portal, Hoima, Rakai and Mubende. They were to get an area of say 500 acres of land and make access roads (tarmac), provide electricity and water and parcel the land into plots of about 5 acres of land for each anticipated factory. These factories have to be compatible – where food factories should not be mixed with clothing factories. The 500 acres of land is better divided into three or more groups per town: An Industrial Park for foods, another for wear e.g, clothing and foot wear, another for engineering and electronics, e.g. steel rolling assembling, computers, etc.
- He proposed a regional distribution of industries basing on the resources available within these regions shown in table 1 below:
- Many of the industries that were proposed by the President are all natural resource based. There are, in addition those industries based on human skills such as engineering industries (metal fabrication, machine parts making, electronics, etc.) and the potentially big, outsourcing industry using the internet. These factories would be built by the private sector solicited, encouraged and assisted by the Government – Ministry of Finance and Uganda Investment Authority. (UIA).
| District | Industries to be built | |
| 1. | Arua | Honey, fruits, coffee processing, textiles and later on, fish processing after fish farming is encouraged in the Nile Valley. |
| 2. | Lira | Textiles; cassava processing; oil seeds processing, including the moya oil; fruit processing after the development of fish farming of the area in the numerous swamps of the area |
| 3. | Gulu | Fruit processing, rice hurling, oil seeds processing and sugar processing. |
| 4. | Soroti | Fruit processing, dairy processing, leather processing, fish processing after fish farming is promoted in the area in the numerous swamps of the area. |
| 5. | Moroto | Cement manufacturing; green marble polishing, aloe-vera and herbal medicine processing, gum-Arabica processing, dairy products, fruit processing especially grapes and leather processing industry. |
| 6. | Mbale | Grain milling especially wheat, fruit processing, dairy industry and coffee processing. |
| 7. | Tororo | Cement manufacturing, fertilizer manufacturing, steel manufacturing from the iron ore deposits in the area, gold processing in the Busia area, fish processing in the Lumino area, fruit growing since the land fragmentation. |
| 8. | Iganga | Fruit processing, dairy processing, fish processing and farming using the Busoga swamps for fish farming. |
| 9. | Jinja | To develop the Industrial Park in the land availed by the town council for general industries which are already in the area like the one for steel rolling, grain milling, vegetable oil industries, leather processing, etc. |
| 10. | Masaka | Fruit processing, fish farming and processing in the Lweera area, pork processing, tea processing, beef industry. |
| 11. | Luwero | Nakaseke area – Tomato processing, fruit processing, dairy coolers, fish farming and processing, poultry farming, dairy farming and processing. |
| 12. | Nakasongola | Textiles, military industries, fish farming and dairy industries. |
| 13. | Mbarara | Dairy industry, beef industry, leather industry, banana processing, wood industry (industrial forestry on the bare hills); fruit processing, silk processing and farming, honey processing, etc. |
| 14. | Bushenyi | Silk processing and farming, tea-processing (in Kyamuhunga and Buhweju), wood industry, banana processing (in Nyaruzinga), fish farming and processing instead of draining swamps for crop and cattle farming which undermines the environment. |
| 15. | Kabale | Fish farming and processing, dairy farming and processing, flower growing and exporting, temperate fruits processing, pyrethrum processing, outsourcing of labour, etc, through internet. |
| 16. | Kasese | Fruits processing, cement production, cobalt, copper, dairy industry, tourism, fish processing. |
| 17. | Fortportal | Dairy processing, tea processing, fruit processing, wood industries, cocoa processing (Bundibugyo area), vanilla processing, grain-milling (Kamwenge), etc. |
| 18. | Rakai | Sugar, fish farming and processing near L. Victoria; fruit growing and processing, honey, silk growing and processing and dairy farming and processing, etc. |
| 19. | Mubende | Tea growing and processing, coffee growing and processing, dairy farming and processing, grain milling (in Kasambya area if the land per family is big enough for maize), fruit processing, beans, onions, etc. |
| 20. | Hoima | Petroleum refinery; tobacco factories; sugar processing, fish processing on L. Albert, rice hurling, etc. |
| 21. | Kampala | There are already a number of industrial zones in Kampala such as Bugolobi, Ntinda, Nakawa, Luzira, Nalukolongo, Kawempe and Namanve. Industrial estates such as Nsimbe Estates, Seeta, Bweyogerere should be developed. UIA was mandated to continue to buy land at good prices from private land owners in order to build a land bank for the purpose of industrial development. These factories, in addition to processing, should be light engineering types. – Metal fabrication, machine making, electronics, garbage processing, etc. |