Processing
A modern, HACCP-compliant line producing tomato paste, sauces and purées for regional supermarkets and institutional offtakers. Twenty tonnes of raw fruit intake per day at full ramp.
Mutoko District · Mashonaland East · Zimbabwe
A USD 4.5 million blended-finance investment building Zimbabwe's first fully solar-powered, export-grade tomato processing facility — anchored by 1,500 smallholder outgrowers and engineered to DFI standard.
The opportunity
Zimbabwe spends more than USD 18 million annually importing processed tomato products — paste, sauces, purées — despite having arable land, climate and labour suited to in-country production. Smallholder farmers in Mutoko grow some of the finest field tomatoes in Southern Africa but capture only a fraction of the value chain. Post-harvest losses routinely exceed thirty per cent.
Mutomato integrates three assets on a single twelve-hectare site: a twenty-tonne-per-day HACCP-compliant processing facility, a 500 kW captive solar PV array with battery storage, and a structured outgrower programme linking 1,500 smallholders — sixty per cent women — to guaranteed offtake, extension services and climate-smart inputs.
Three integrated components
A modern, HACCP-compliant line producing tomato paste, sauces and purées for regional supermarkets and institutional offtakers. Twenty tonnes of raw fruit intake per day at full ramp.
A 500 kW solar PV installation with battery storage supplies ninety per cent of plant load. The facility is grid-independent, Paris-aligned and immune to Zimbabwe's load-shedding cycle.
Fifteen hundred smallholders — anchored by cooperatives — supply the plant under fixed-price forward contracts, with mobile payments, extension agronomy and input finance built in.
Measured impact
Mutomato is being structured against the HIPSO indicator framework and the 2X Challenge Level 2 criteria. Every dollar of catalytic capital crowds in measurable development outcomes.
A bankable, climate-resilient platform for Zimbabwean agri-processing.
— Project Thesis
The capital stack
Senior debt, concessional tranches and catalytic equity — sized to deliver additionality, crowd in commercial capital and preserve pari passu protections.