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 Phase 1 ramp, expanding to forty tonnes per day in Phase 2.
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 HACCP-compliant processing facility with a twenty-tonne-per-day Phase 1 intake designed for expansion to forty tonnes per day, 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 Phase 1 ramp, expanding to forty tonnes per day in Phase 2.
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 supply the plant under fixed-price forward contracts. Anchored by ten solar-powered Mutomato hubs — boreholes, drip irrigation, certified seed, fertiliser and weekly extension agronomy delivered to women-and-youth-led cooperatives.
Measured impact
Mutomato is being structured against the HIPSO indicator framework and the 2X Challenge criteria, targeting 2X Challenge qualification at financial close. 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.