UMM · Agro-industry
UMM Agro-Industrie
We hold the maize chain end to end: agronomic advice to growers, collection, drying, storage and first-stage processing.
Our story
Extending what we know about maize to the first stage of processing
UMM, Usine Moulin Maïserie Agro-Industrie, is a Malian family business founded in 2017 and specialised in maize processing. It covers the chain end to end, from grain supply through to putting finished products and co-products on the market.
We work as a value chain: selecting and securing the maize supply, organising storage, processing the raw material, then offering products suited to the needs of distributors, food manufacturers, livestock operators and consumers.
Our maize comes exclusively from conventional, non-GMO seed that meets the requirements of the regulations in force.
The promoter
Mr Soumaila Diakité
Promoter & Managing Director
A vision serving quality, innovation and development.
UMM is led by Mr Soumaila Diakité, a Malian entrepreneur from the very area where the plant stands, with long-standing knowledge of the maize chain, its growing areas and its main players.
He has worked in agribusiness for more than 24 years. Between 2008 and 2019 he traded an average of 5,000 to 10,000 tonnes of maize a year, plus some 1,450 tonnes of rice. That business built him a wide network of growers, suppliers and trade customers.
With UMM, his ambition is to take a further step: to move from trading agricultural raw materials to processing them industrially in Mali, creating more value locally and carrying Malian agro-industrial know-how to West African markets.
- Quality
- Innovation
- Development
- Commitment
Our industrial site
The Bougouni plant
The drying and storage silos, the processing building, the intake and dispatch areas, the technical rooms and the office building all sit within a single enclosed perimeter. Grain leaves it only once processed and bagged.
Key figures
What the plant represents
Our customers
Trust built to last
Our company owes its longevity to its knowledge of the trade, but also to the relationships of trust built with its customers. Our network today includes wholesalers in Bamako, Koutiala and Sikasso, distributing maize flour, semolina and bran.
We stay attentive to how their needs change, to their specifications and to regulatory requirements. Having consolidated that home market, we are preparing to export our grits, semolina and maize flour to several West African countries.
- Breweries and the beverage industry
- Biscuit makers, snacking and extruded products
- Industrial bakeries and pastry makers
- Livestock feed and pet food manufacturers
Let's work together
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