WDT HUB

Kayunga  ·  Bugiri  ·  Five hubs by 2027

From jackfruit to operating system.

WDT Hub turns smallholder farmers into a transparent, audit-ready, EUDR-compliant supply chain, and turns a 15-kilometre community into infrastructure that buyers can trust, government can build on, and farmers can build a future on.

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Jack's Secret Food Group BV  ·  Plexaris Uganda  ·  WDT Hub · Kayunga · Bugiri

5

Hubs targeted by 2027

2,500

Farmers reached at full rollout

6

Revenue streams per hub

8.8/10

Independent impact readiness score

Who this is for

One system. Five reasons to care.

Commodity Buyers & Processors

One audited, EUDR-ready counterparty instead of a thousand untraceable smallholders.

Government & Policy Partners

A market-driven delivery model for the Parish Development Model and NDP IV, with full digital transparency built in.

Farmers, Today and Tomorrow

Fair pricing, free fertilizer, land documentation, and a cooperative that doesn't disappear when the season changes.

Future Hub Leaders - Brians & Fellows

A real apprenticeship path from fellow to hub leader, inheriting both the skills and the trust.

The Community

A village hub with clean water, classrooms, new kinds of jobs, and a place that doesn't only function when the harvest does.

The starting point

Value is created in Uganda. It accumulates elsewhere.

A farmer sells jackfruit to a middleman for a fraction of its market value. The middleman sells it on to an exporter. The exporter ships it raw to Europe.

The value is created elsewhere, taxed elsewhere, accumulated elsewhere.

This is how rural Africa has worked for generations. It is precisely what WDT Hub breaks.

A commodity is fragile. A system compounds.

A commodity is fragile. A system compounds.

Commodity business

Jack's Secret as a jackfruit supplier.

A perfectly good business, but fragile, exposed to market prices, FX swings, and the procurement logic of Cargill, Kerry and Olam.

A farmer without GPS registration, harvest history or HACCP certification is invisible to a multinational compliance department, however good his product is.

Platform

The Hub as infrastructure layer.

An infrastructure layer installed at village level. Six revenue streams. One organised entity that a multinational can sign with, invoice and audit.

500 invisible farmers become visible. Remove the jackfruit, the system keeps running.

The hub, defined

A 15-kilometre cell of about 500 farmers.

15 km is not arbitrary. It is the distance a boda-boda can travel with a full load before the profit margin evaporates, the human scale of the rural economy.

Inside the 15-km cell

  • Processing & packing
  • Plexaris registration
  • PostStack & land titling
  • Bio-converter / fertilizer
  • Solar (+ battery)
  • Water point
  • Health clinic
  • Classrooms & fellows
Children gathered with Field Fellow in Uganda

For buyers  ·  Built for global sourcing & compliance teams

The counterparty you can actually audit.

From December 2025, EU importers must prove that products do not originate from deforested land, with GPS coordinates, dated satellite data and a demonstrable chain of custody. Cargill, Kerry, Olam and comparable global ingredient houses have moved this from marketing language to a hard procurement requirement.

The Hub makes 500 invisible farmers visible, the interface multinationals need but cannot build themselves at viable cost.

If your sourcing or compliance team is mapping EUDR exposure across East African supply chains, we'd welcome the conversation.

What you get

GPS-verified plot registration
EUDR Art. 9
Dated satellite data
EUDR Art. 10
Chain-of-custody records
PER DELIVERY
HACCP-certified processing
CODEX
One counterparty to sign, invoice and audit
PROCUREMENT

The missing link

The bio-converter closes the loop.

Every Hub depended on imported fertilizer priced in USD while the farmer earns in shillings, a structural leak. The bio-converter turns the biomass farmers bring in into organic fertilizer that flows directly back to those same farmers.

01  ·  INPUT

Farmer brings biomass

Husks, waste streams, organic material previously burned or discarded.

02  ·  CONVERT

Bio-converter at hub

High-quality organic fertilizer, branded under Organics Matter®.

03  ·  RETURN

Fertilizer back to farmer

Productivity in return for what used to be a cost.

04  ·  OUTCOME

Closed nutrient loop

Import dependency disappears. Margin per farmer rises.

PostStack  ·  Built on Uganda's National Land Information System

A fence that becomes a land title.

Most smallholders working land their families have farmed for generations have no formal title to show for it, no collateral for credit, no protection in a dispute, no asset to pass on with certainty. PostStack closes that gap.

Durable fence posts, made from recycled plastic, demarcate each registered plot at the moment it's enrolled in the Hub. The GPS data behind that boundary doesn't just power EUDR traceability, it feeds directly into Uganda's National Land Information System (NLIS), giving farmers a documented path toward a formal land title.

  • Recycled plastic fence posts mark every plot boundary
  • Boundary data submitted directly into Uganda's NLIS
  • A first formal record for farmers who never had one
  • One capture, two outcomes - the same data powers EUDR plot verification
Smallholder farmer on a registered plot in Uganda

Energy foundation

Self-contained at the Hub. Mini-grid at scale.

Hub base layer

Solar + battery storage

Proven, locally maintainable, independent of the unreliable national grid. Drying ovens, processing, twenty charging points and the Plexaris terminals run off it from day one.

Scale-up partner

Equatorial Power

Solar hybrid mini-grids of 50 to 100 kW across Uganda, Rwanda and the DRC. As five, ten, twenty Hubs come online within adjacent 15 km cells, energy demand justifies mini-grid economics at scale.

Revenue architecture

Six parallel revenue streams. One hub.

  01

Agri-processing

Drying, cleaning and packaging jackfruit and other crops at HACCP standard.

  02

Trade margins

AgroLink resale margin between hub and offtakers. Price certainty before harvest.

  03

Data licences

Plexaris intelligence licensed to governments and NGOs for policy and research.

  04

Organic fertilizer

Sales to farmers inside and outside the hub, under the Organics Matter® brand.

  05

Education

Fellows programme and youth skilling, paid placements, paid curricula.

  06

Health services

Clinic fees within the Hub footprint. A productive workforce and a revenue line.

Why it compounds under pressure

The system grows stronger under pressure.

A new fellow doesn't learn in a classroom in Kampala. He walks alongside Brian for months: on the fields, on the veranda, in the factory. He inherits the culture before he inherits a 15 km cell of his own.

That's the path: real responsibility, earned trust, and a leadership role at the centre of your own community's economy, not a job description borrowed from somewhere else. If you want to build something real in your own parish, this is where that starts.

The path

Fellow
START
Mini Brian
EARNED
Hub Lead
15 KM CELL

For farmers, today and tomorrow

What joining a Hub means for you.

The Hub doesn't ask farmers to take it on faith. It's built by people who sit on your veranda first.

For the community  ·  The fifth beneficiary

A Hub is a place, not just a supply chain.

Every Hub is built around a simple idea: rural infrastructure should serve the whole community, not just the harvest season. Long before jackfruit is in season, the Hub is already a place where people gather, children learn, and clean water flows.

Community veranda

A shared gathering space at the heart of the Hub, open beyond working hours.

Water point

Clean, safe drinking water for the Hub and surrounding households.

Classrooms & education platform

Curriculum and digital learning tools for local youth, run alongside the Fellows programme.

New kinds of jobs

Processing, packing, quality control, machine operation, logistics and data roles that didn't exist in the village before the Hub did.

For government & policy partners

Built to withstand scrutiny at every level.

At parish & district level

WDT Hub operationalises the Parish Development Model where it's hardest: at village scale. Commercial processing, fertilizer, land documentation, clean water, education and health through one accountable structure, not a grant that ends when the funding cycle does.

At sector & national level

Built to scale and replicate, in direct support of NDP IV: formalising informal livelihoods, creating youth employment against a population where 70% are under 30, and building exportable, EUDR-ready supply chains.

At every level

Because every transaction is digitally recorded and auditable, the model holds up to scrutiny, whether the question comes from a parish officer, a ministry assessing programme fit, or the Presidency assessing it as a national model.

External validation

A surgical answer to three documented problems.

40%

World Bank  ·  Dec 2025

of agricultural output in Uganda lost to inadequate post-harvest infrastructure. Answered by processing inside the 15 km zone.

AfDB

Corruption & leakage

flagged as the greatest barrier to capital mobilisation. Answered by digital transparency on every transaction.

70%

UNDP  ·  Population under 30

against too few available productive jobs. Answered by the fellows programme and Mini Brian apprenticeships.

8.8/10

Impact Readiness, independently assessed. Exceptionally high precisely because this is a market model, not an aid model.

Exploratory  ·  Fourth pillar

Biochar to roads. Roads to hubs. Hubs to biochar.

CarbonPave produces a cold asphalt premix whose primary raw material is biochar. The Hub has the biomass, the location and the infrastructure context. CarbonPave has the technology and the need for local supply.

Feedstock

Napier grass

Pak Chong variety on marginal land. 60 t dry biomass / hectare / year.

Process

Pyrolysis kiln

Heats dry biomass without oxygen, complementary to the bio-converter.

Offtake

CarbonPave roads

Cold asphalt for feeder roads, including those under Uganda's UCMID programme.

Payback

1.3 years

on the additional kiln investment, before carbon credits.

The Hub produces biochar. CarbonPave lays roads with it in the 15 km zone. Those roads make the Hub more accessible. More accessible farmers grow more Napier. The investment strengthens its own return.

Roadmap

Five hubs. 2,500 farmers. By 2027.

Hub Location Status Target online
Hub 1KayungaLead site  ·  Brian + Mini Brians in apprenticeshipQ3 2026
Hub 2Bugiri Free ZoneUFZA & Bugiri FZ alignment in placeQ4 2026
Hub 3Mayuge DistrictSite selection following Mini Brian readinessQ4 2026
Hub 4TBDSite selection following Mini Brian readiness2027
Hub 5TBDSite selection following Mini Brian readiness2027

The constraint is the apprenticeship pipeline of Mini Brians. That's also the moat: the technology can be copied, the human culture cannot.

WDT HUB

Contact

Let's talk.

Bauke Dekker

Founder, WDT Hub

Partnerships, buyers, and government enquiries

sales@wdt-hub.com

Brian Tayebwa

Hub Lead, Kayunga

Farmer, fellow and community enquiries

operations@wdt-hub.com

Jack's Secret Food Group BV

Netherlands  ·  jackfruit processing & offtake

Plexaris Uganda

Kampala  ·  Field Fellow & data platform

WDT Hub  ·  Lead site

Kayunga  ·  Brian  ·  500-farmer cooperative