FarmCro Agro · Agro-Commodity Trading & Export Lagos, Nigeria · Est. 2026
Core Roadmap

The three we're building our trading house on.

These are the commodities carrying our phased, cycle-by-cycle growth plan — each one proven before the next is added.

Phase 1 · Active Sourcing

🌰 Sesame Seed

Sourced from the Nasarawa and Benue sesame belts, where cooperative clusters are increasingly organized for export-grade production. Sesame is our entry commodity — the shortest cash cycle and the most liquid export market among Nigeria's non-oil exports, with strong demand from China, Japan and Turkey.

Spec Sheet

Target Specification

  • Moisture content: ≤ 8% (targeting ≤ 6% for export buyers)
  • Purity: minimum 99%
  • Oil content: 50%+ preferred
  • Packaging: 50kg / 100kg polypropylene bags
  • Sourcing region: Nasarawa & Benue States
White & brown, natural or cleaned grades
Spec Sheet

Target Specification

  • Form: sun-dried, split (whole dried is a smaller niche)
  • Harvest window: October – January
  • Sourcing region: Southern Kaduna (Kagarko, Kachia)
  • Packaging: 25kg / 50kg bags
Cleaned & cut to buyer-preferred split form
Phase 2 · Next Cycle

🫚 Dried Ginger

Southern Kaduna — Kagarko and Kachia — is our target belt. Ginger has a narrower harvest window (October–January), so we plan each ginger cycle to line up a buyer ahead of harvest rather than after it.

Phase 3 · Planned

🍫 Cocoa Beans

Cross River (Ikom, Boki) and Ondo (Idanre, Ondo West) are our target zones, each with slightly different bean profiles worth understanding for pricing. Cocoa is more regulated than sesame or ginger, so we plan to source through a Licensed Buying Agent (LBA) partnership rather than managing fermentation ourselves in our first cycles.

Approach

Sourcing Approach

  • Buy from cooperatives that already ferment and dry properly
  • Sourcing regions: Cross River & Ondo States
  • Packaging: 65kg jute bags (export standard)
  • Route to market: licensed buying agent partnership
Cocoa pod on the tree
Opened cocoa pod with beans
Dried cocoa beans
Cocoa farmer at harvest
Also Sourcing

Beyond the core roadmap.

We also source cashew nuts and palm kernel products on request, as volume and buyer demand come together — evaluated case by case rather than run on a fixed cycle yet.

Under Evaluation

🥜 Cashew Nuts

Raw cashew nuts (RCN) from Nigeria's Kogi, Kwara, Ogun and Enugu belts — a well-established export category we're evaluating alongside our core roadmap.

Spec Sheet

Target Specification

  • Nut count: 170–190 nuts/kg
  • Kernel Outturn Ratio (KOR): 46–52 lbs per 80kg
  • Moisture content: ≤ 10%
  • Foreign matter: ≤ 0.25%
  • Packaging: 50kg / 80kg jute or PP sacks
  • Sourcing region: Kogi, Kwara, Ogun & Enugu States
Spec Sheet

Target Specification

  • Crude Palm Oil (CPO / "red oil"): FFA (as palmitic) ≤ 5%, moisture & impurities ≤ 0.5%
  • Crude Palm Kernel Oil (CPKO): FFA (as lauric) ≤ 5%, moisture & impurities ≤ 0.5%
  • Palm kernel: cleaned, sun-dried, low foreign matter
  • Packaging: drums, jerry cans or bulk per buyer requirement
  • Sourcing region: Edo, Akwa Ibom, Ondo, Cross River & Kogi States
Under Evaluation

🌴 Palm Kernel & Palm Oil Products

Palm kernel, crude palm oil ("red oil"), palm kernel oil and vegetable oil — sourced from Nigeria's established palm belt for local and regional buyers.

Sourcing one of these commodities?

Tell us your target volume, grade and timeline — we'll let you know honestly where we stand.

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