About · Orora Agro Group
A Burundian agribusiness group building for the long term
We are a private-sector agro-industrial group operating installed industrial assets at the Ex-ALCOVIT site in Bujumbura. Our purpose is simple and demanding: to help strengthen national food and protein security through competitive, transparent and inclusive agro-industry — anchored by feed and modern poultry.
- Private-sector led
- Based in Bujumbura
- Food & protein security
- Inclusive by design
Our story
Orora Agro Group was founded on a conviction that Burundi's food system needs durable industrial capacity, not one-off projects. Across the region, livestock and poultry productivity is held back by the same recurring constraints: unreliable access to quality feed, fragmented animal-health support and thin commercial links between smallholders and structured markets. We set out to address these constraints together rather than in isolation.
We anchored the group in installed industrial assets at the Ex-ALCOVIT site, Avenue de la Verrerie, in Bujumbura's Quartier Industriel. Reviving this industrial base lets us produce quality-controlled compound feed at scale and pair it with a modern poultry operation that also serves as a reference and training site — proof of standard before promises.
From this foundation we are building an integrated platform across three connected value chains: industrial animal feed, modern poultry, and emerging veterinary and animal-health services. Poultry is the immediate anchor; further value chains will follow it, deliberately and in sequence, once each step is proven.
Mission & vision
Our mission is to contribute to national food and protein security through competitive, transparent and inclusive agro-industrial activity — work that stands on its own commercial footing while delivering genuine public value. We are development-oriented without charity framing: farmers are partners, not beneficiaries.
Our vision is a Burundi where reliable, quality-controlled feed and modern, well-supervised poultry are the norm rather than the exception — and where smallholders participate in those value chains as active commercial partners. We measure ourselves by productivity gained, standards upheld and livelihoods structured, not by slogans.
- Competitive — built to operate commercially, not on subsidy
- Transparent — operating to standards expected by serious institutions
- Inclusive — smallholders included as active commercial partners
What we value
The principles that govern how we build, supply and operate — applied consistently across every value chain.
Standards before scale
We prove biosecurity, veterinary supervision and animal welfare on our own sites before extending them, so growth rests on demonstrated practice rather than promises.
Quality you can rely on
Quality-controlled feed and well-supervised flocks are the foundation of productivity — consistency is a discipline, not a marketing line.
Inclusion as partnership
Smallholders join as active commercial partners with predictable economics, with deliberate attention to the participation of women and youth.
Transparency
We operate to the governance, environmental and social standards expected by government and development-finance institutions, and welcome independent scrutiny.
Animal welfare & biosecurity
Healthy, well-housed birds under proper veterinary supervision protect producers, consumers and the wider flock alike.
Discipline in execution
We sequence deliberately — poultry first — and let proof accumulate before committing to the next step.
A note from our founder
I started Orora Agro Group because I believe Burundi's food security will be built by businesses that last — companies that put steel in the ground, hold a standard, and treat farmers as commercial partners rather than recipients of goodwill. We chose to anchor the group in real installed industrial assets and in poultry, where the path from feed to flock to market is clear and where we can demonstrate, on our own sites, the standard we ask others to adopt.
Our ambition is patient and concrete: reliable feed, modern poultry, structured inclusion, and value chains that earn their place one proven step at a time. We would rather show results than make claims. If that approach resonates with you — as a partner, a producer or an institution — we would be glad to talk.
— Brice A. Gateka, Founder & CEO, Bujumbura, Burundi
The Burundi food-system context
Burundi's livestock and poultry sectors operate under real structural pressure. The country depends heavily on imported feed and concentrates, which makes input costs volatile and supply unpredictable for producers who can least absorb the shock. When quality-controlled feed is hard to source, productivity suffers across every farm that relies on it.
Access to certified inputs and animal-health support is uneven, and much smallholder production remains fragmented — small flocks, limited technical support and weak commercial links to structured buyers. The result is a system where genuine potential is held back less by ambition than by missing infrastructure and missing market structure.
These are general, well-recognised challenges across the region. We describe them not to dwell on difficulty but to be clear about the gap our platform is built to close — practically, commercially and at industrial scale.
Why integrated agribusiness matters
Tackling feed, production, animal health and farmer inclusion as one coordinated system — rather than separate projects — is what makes the model durable.
Reliable feed as the backbone
Local, quality-controlled compound feed reduces dependence on imports and gives every downstream activity a dependable foundation.
→Modern poultry as the anchor
A clear, fast value chain from feed to flock to market — and a working reference site that demonstrates modern standards in practice.
→Animal health that protects value
Emerging veterinary and animal-health services reduce reliance on uncertified inputs and protect productivity at the source.
→Inclusion that compounds
Bringing smallholders in as active commercial partners spreads productivity gains and builds a wider, more resilient producer base.
→Coordination over fragmentation
When feed, production, health and markets connect in one platform, each part reinforces the others instead of competing for scarce inputs.
→Standards that build trust
Biosecurity, animal welfare and environmental and social safeguards designed in from the start earn the confidence of institutions and consumers.
→Build with a group that's building for the long term
Whether you are a partner, a producer, an investor or an institution, we would welcome a first conversation about how to work together.