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Sylva Food Solutions Zambia Ltd
Nutritious food, made in Zambia
We source, process, fortify and package nutritious foods for retail, institutional and humanitarian markets.
Our cereals are fortified naturally with moringa, millet, sorghum and soy, and our products are lab-tested at the UNZA Food Science Laboratory and by the Zambia Bureau of Standards. We supply retail shelves, including Pick n Pay, and school feeding programmes.
Capabilities
What we do
Cleaning, milling, blending, fortification and packaging of local grains and legumes.
Solar drying up to 3 tonnes a day, cutting post-harvest losses by 20–25%.
Buying produce from 60,000+ smallholder farmers: maize, beans, soybean, sweet potato, fish, fruit and vegetables.
Co-packing for institutional and humanitarian programmes, with batch coding and traceability on every pack.
Sustainable farming, post-harvest handling, quality grading and farm-level food safety.
Supplying school feeding programmes and retail partners across Zambia.
Our facility
Lilayi factory, Lusaka
A 3.5-hectare campus for raw material intake, processing, packaging and warehousing, with its own borehole water supply and backup power. Production also runs at our Showgrounds site.
Fortification
Nutrition from Zambian crops
We fortify with biofortified and indigenous crops such as moringa, high-iron and high-zinc beans and orange maize, working with partners like WFP, UNHCR and IFPRI/HarvestPlus.
Partners