Organization type
Private Sector
Focus topic
  • Agricultural Value Chains / Agri-Businesses
  • Rural Finance / Insurance
Focus region
Middle East & North Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa

As a transforming force in the business of agriculture, AFGRI offers a wide range of services, skills and expertise. Focusing on product development and specialised services, AFGRI Operations prides itself on its integrated approach to market needs, with the customer’s profitability a priority.

With procurement personnel stationed Nationwide and its offices in Zambia, AFGRI Trading offers producers a wide range of structured products on an ongoing basis, including:
Procurement of physical commodities (white and yellow maize, sunflower seed, soya beans, wheat, sorghum and barley) from farmers on a pre-negotiated contract basis, making use of any or all of the following:
• Hedging of commodities on the SA Futures Exchange (SAFEX)
• Fixed price contracts
• Minimum price contracts
• Maximum price contracts and
• Deferred price contracts
Risk management services include:
• Price risk management through various term and option contracts
• Low hedging costs on both National and International markets
• Effective SAFEX broker services at competitive rates, together with market related updates (Local and International supply and demand figures; MTM each day; weather and other related information)

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