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LLDPS Africa
Case Studies

Margin moves. Documented.

Independent producers, cooperatives, integrators and feed mills use LDPS Africa to turn raw farm data into measurable profit. A selection of outcomes — anonymised where requested — is below.

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Poultry · KenyaKiambu Broiler Integrator

EPEF +38 points by rebuilding the brooding KPI loop.

Persistent week-1 mortality and uneven FCR across contract farms. LDPS Africa standardised KPI capture, surfaced the brooding temperature gap, and re-priced the contract grower bonus around EPEF.

EPEF
+38 pts
FCR
−0.11
Mortality (wk 1)
−2.4 pp
Margin / bird
+KES 17
"We had the data. LDPS turned it into a profit decision in a week."
Production Director
Operation profile: Kiambu Broiler Integrator (8 contract farms, 240,000 birds/cycle)
Dairy · KenyaNakuru Dairy Cooperative

+1.9 L/cow/day after a Feed Cost / Litre rebuild.

Member payouts were eroding under feed inflation. We ran the cooperative through the Nutrition Economics engine, repriced TMR ingredient sourcing, and added a benchmarking band to the monthly statement.

Milk yield
+1.9 L/cow/day
Feed cost / litre
−18%
SCC
−92k cells/ml
IOFC / cow / day
+KES 78
Operation profile: Nakuru Dairy Cooperative (1,180 cows, smallholder pool)
Swine · UgandaCentral Region Farrow-to-Finish

Piglets weaned / sow / year +3.1 in two cycles.

Reproduction was masking grow-out losses. The audit module flagged non-productive sow days as the dominant profit leak; the action plan rewired culling triggers and gilt onboarding.

PWSY
+3.1
NPSD
−17 days
Finisher ADG
+62 g/day
Feed Cost / kg Gain
−9%
Operation profile: Central Region Farrow-to-Finish (320 sows)
Poultry · NigeriaLagos Layer Farm

Hen-Day Production held at 91% through a maize shock.

When maize prices jumped 34%, the IEVI™ engine ran four ration alternatives in minutes and flagged a sorghum-soy reformulation that protected production without touching premix.

Hen-Day Production
Held 91%
Feed cost / dozen eggs
−12%
Egg weight
+0.4 g
Margin / dozen
+NGN 95
Operation profile: Lagos Layer Farm (62,000 hens)
Feed · TanzaniaIndependent Feed Mill

Repositioned 3 SKUs using IEVI™ — sales +22% in 90 days.

The mill was losing share to imported brands. LDPS built an IEVI™ scorecard for each SKU and turned it into a producer-facing one-pager their sales reps now leave on every farm visit.

Volume
+22%
Gross margin / MT
+8%
Customer retention
+14 pp
Complaint rate
−41%
Operation profile: Independent Feed Mill (12,000 MT / year)
Dairy · RwandaDFI-funded Smallholder Dairy Cohort

Investor-grade quarterly reporting in one click.

A development financier needed defensible KPI rollups across a dispersed smallholder cohort. The Enterprise console now produces a quarterly investor PDF with benchmarked tiers and cohort drift charts.

Reporting cycle
−85% time
Cohort yield avg
+1.1 L/cow/day
Farms in Top 25%
+96 farms
Audit pass rate
+19 pp
Operation profile: DFI-funded Smallholder Dairy Cohort (640 farms)

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