Agricorp International Development Limited

Nigeria - Lagos State, Lagos

• 02/09/2021
• Series A
• $17,500,000

Agricorp International is fully owned by Agricorp Holdings Limited (UK). It is an agricultural processing and exporting company focused on bridging the gap in food security. The company works with over 5,000 smallholder farmers in the Kaduna (Nigeria) that cultivate both organic and conventional ginger.

Over the years, our company has supported capacity building of over 150 women processors and 50 youths that support our cleaning, splitting, drying, bagging and transportation activities. The last three years has seen Agricorp increase it’s capacity by 400% (production, processing and exporting).

Agricorp has expanded its local operations in Nigeria to include poultry production, processing and distribution. The business recently acquired a four million poultry bird capacity for US$ 10m. This will see the company operate as one of the single largest producers of poultry in the country.

Today, Agricorp International has expanded into Southern Africa with its operations in Zambia.

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Kenneth ObiajuluFounder

South Africa - Zambia

Kenneth is a disruptive innovation specialist with deep roots in agriculture, food security and livelihood development. He is passionate about everything that impacts all the value chain participants especially smallholder farmers, women and youths.

Over the years, Kenneth has worked across several sectors ranging from public, private and international development. Some notable organisations and projects handled include; Nigeria for Women Project (The World Bank Group), TechnoServe, Food Loss and Waste Project (Rockefeller Foundation), State Partnership for Agriculture (Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation), Heineken Nigeria, Quantifying African Value Chain (OCP Africa), Sunlight Water Center Project (Unilever UK), Farmcrowdy, etc.

Kenneth has managed and invested over $25million across his career lifespan. He currently leads Agricorp Holdings Limited (UK) as CEO. In his current role, he leads the African expansion into Zambia and other Southern African markets.

LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/kenneth9185/