By the year 2050 the world’s population is expected to reach 9 billion people and Africa is in a unique position to address world food security. It is a continent with rich agricultural land and abundant opportunities to focus investments into agriculture capacity in order to assist in meeting future world food needs.

Africa needs to realize its potential for agriculture. Our vision to become a significant role player in the continent’s food security is strengthened by specialised skills in the agricultural supply chain. In collaboration with various developmental financial institutions and donor/aid organisations, AFGRI actively promotes and supports the Southern African Development Community (SADC) and Common Market of Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) member countries’ efforts in establishing and maintaining sustainable agriculture programmes. Community development projects in the agricultural sector continually receives guidance, support and assistance from AFGRI’s specialists to create sustainable growth with a view to making the agricultural sector more commercially sustainable.

AFGRI is able to supply the following services, knowledge and expertise into Africa:

Specialised lending and financial support - supplies tailormade innovative financial solutions to the secondary agricultural and related industries with a focus on emerging markets with an emphasis on Africa. This includes matching financing needs to best suited financing packages as well as facilitating import and export documentation and proceeds.

Retail, equipment and mechanisation - provides or sources a full range of agricultural inputs, home and garden, outdoor and DIY products, selected building materials and services to farmers, small-holding owners and the general public through 39 retail outlets.

Insurance - a composite insurance brokerage specialising in both short term and long term insurance which includes both personal lines as well as commercial lines.

Broking - AFGRI has one of the largest agricultural commodity trading operations in South Africa which offers a wide range of derivative products linked to the SA Futures Exchange (SAFEX) and access to international futures markets, such as the Chicago and Kansas City Boards of Trade.

Grain Management - offers secure storage of agricultural products throughout South Africa and Zambia. Current infrastructure comprises 67 grain silos in South Africa. Grain is handled and stored separately according to grade and other characteristics, with non-GMO grain being a specific example of this practice. Bunker silos, a new technology recently introduced into South Africa, of which AFGRI has 9 complexes, provides temporary storage facilities when required. AFGRI has a total storage capacity of more than 4.3 million tons. Through world-class leading edge technologies in silo inventory management, bunker silo storage and electronic silo certificates, AFGRI Grain Management is positioned as the market leader in South Africa with a vision to become a market leader throughout Africa.

Animal Feeds - is a national feed supplier with seven processing animal feeds mills across the country and capacities in excess of one million tons per annum. AFGRI Animal Feeds ensures maximum profitability for dairy, poultry, beef, sheep and game producers by using the latest technology and advanced nutritional expertise.

Poultry – AFGRI Poultry consists of abattoir facilities capable of process more than 1 million broilers per week and focuses on supplying the independent wholesale market and major retail chains with frozen chickens under the “Superior” brand. Broilers are grown on own farms and by contract growers and day-old chicks are produced in a state-of-theart hatchery through Midway Chix, a broiler breeder operation.

Nedan – extracts oil from raw cotton seed and soya beans, processing the oil and various other raw materials from these products into edible oils, fats and high-protein textured vegetable products for the food processing and fast food industries. Nedan Oil is the market leader in texturised soya protein for human consumption and oil cake for the animal feeds industry.