Project Development
Century Green projects comprise business scaling solutions, food value chain elongation, financial arrangements, and sustainable social impact in several core areas, such as, processing of ancient grains, agro-processing of bananas, sorghum & avocados, raising goat and fish farming for further processing. In Joint Venture with Africa based Partner organizations or under Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV) arrangement, Century Green is co-investing, providing consultancy and capital arrangements or researching, developing, and implementing joint farm projects.
Ancient Grain Processing
Acha (Fonio) processing is an ancient grain project that employs soil-friendly, sustainable farming and cutting-edge processing technology to produce identity-preserved, all-natural (non-GMO) fonio cereals that have superior qualities for safer and improved nutrition. Fonio Cereal is the term for two cultivated types of grass, main millets with small grains that are notable crops in Africa. The cereal has a superior nutrition profile compared to other major superfoods, including America’s quinoa, teff, and amaranth. Our Africa Partners currently aggregate fonio from small holder farmers and our project entails increase in the number of such farmers, improved farming practices, mechanization of the processing, and developing own farm where best practices and improved supply chain can be ensured.
Project Locations: Nigeria and Ghana.
Projected Cost: $13M
Avocado Plantation and Processing
This venture comprises processing avocado into pure avocado oil, avocado hair cream, avocado Vaseline, and avocado soap. Currently employing only 26 workers, our Africa Partner will grow into a larger operating business and our products will be distributed regionally. In the near term, additional supply aggregation from neighboring country will be pursued while 1000 new trees are being planted. The government of Rwanda is supporting this project by provision of avocado seedlings and the project includes scaling the business to acquire the grafted certified avocado trees, set up an irrigation system, build a cold-room/pack shed and farm equipment for which Century Green is raising additional investment of $1.5 million to set up an 80 ha of avocado plantation made up of four blocks measuring 20ha each.
Project Location: Rwanda
Projected Cost: $2M
Aquaculture and Fish Processing
This fish farm venture is focused on the following:
On the social level, the project creates several jobs for young people and contributes to the fight against unemployment. The project contributes to environmental sanitation by collecting and recycling plastic bottles to build the floating fish cages. The project provides households with fresh fish, including improved protein intake in consumption. The government of Cameroon has taken a series of measures to encourage local production and to considerably reduce fish imports (and other staple products) in the medium term. Our strategic alliance with the local Partner will help achieve this goal and preserve the environment while creating value. Secondly, under our Joint Venture/SPV agreement, a $70M second phase farm development will comprise indoor aquaculture and aquaponics hoop-house facilities, including fish feed and produce processing.
Project Location: Yaoundé, Cameroon
Project Cost: Phase 1 - $6.1M; Phase 2 - $90M
Goat Aggregation and Meat Processing
Century Green is partnering with a 5-yr old SME based in Zambia. Our project comprises strategic, phased development over the period 2021 – 2026, toward effectively operationalizing a new slaughterhouse, buying off the property currently housing the processing facility owned by our Africa Partner and upgrading it to be ready for global exports, growing the cold chain and distribution capacity, scaling up the fast foods lines (Meat Xpress, BillyBurgers, and Pizzagoat Africa), as well as improving the supply chain by setting up goat aggregation centers and breeding farms in targeted rural communities across Zambia.
The local partner currently purchases and processes over 5,000 goats from over 400 smallholder farmers. This project will scale operations in the following business segments:
Project Location: Lusaka, Zambia
Project Cost: $6M
Banana and Sorghum Agro-processing
The project involves milling cereals and dry fruits to produce nutritious pre-cooked and fortified composite flours for overall household consumption and specifically for children. Our Africa Partner has, for the last six years, successfully processed and marketed two self-formulated brands of porridge flours. This began with processing of bananas into flour. It evolved to processing various pre-cooked porridge flour blends, incorporating multiple grains, including sorghum as substrates, to our expanded market offering. This project has the strategic focus to contribute towards developing a strong smallholder farmer community and provide quality, nutritious foods to the general public at an affordable price. This project will expand the supply chain to reach 5,000 farmers, implementing climate-smart practices to also produce sorghum for this scaling. The current plant utilization is at 33%. The first phase, $2M project will scale it to 69% to meet market demand in the near term. Farmland has been secured for developing an integrated farm, whereby supply chain, quantity and quality of sorghum, banana, and other crops can be assured.
Project Location: Nairobi, Kenya
Project Cost: $55M
Kwandebele Agriculture Academy
Kwandebele Agriculture Academy is a 1,400-hectare agricultural project by Petrusville and the Manala Mgibe Royal House Organization. This Organization has issued a Design-Build contract Agreement to The McMeadoy Group, Ltd., an advisory firm to Century Green, to design and construct an agricultural academy as part of an integrated farm project. Century Green Consortium through the McMeadoy Group Ltd. is to develop the integrated farm, and source funds for the farming and food processing projects. Century Green is also evaluating a commercial-size RAS indoor aquaculture plant for the site.
Project Location: Mpumalanga, South Africa
Project Cost: $150M
Ancient Grain Processing
Acha (Fonio) processing is an ancient grain project that employs soil-friendly, sustainable farming and cutting-edge processing technology to produce identity-preserved, all-natural (non-GMO) fonio cereals that have superior qualities for safer and improved nutrition. Fonio Cereal is the term for two cultivated types of grass, main millets with small grains that are notable crops in Africa. The cereal has a superior nutrition profile compared to other major superfoods, including America’s quinoa, teff, and amaranth. Our Africa Partners currently aggregate fonio from small holder farmers and our project entails increase in the number of such farmers, improved farming practices, mechanization of the processing, and developing own farm where best practices and improved supply chain can be ensured.
Project Locations: Nigeria and Ghana.
Projected Cost: $13M
Avocado Plantation and Processing
This venture comprises processing avocado into pure avocado oil, avocado hair cream, avocado Vaseline, and avocado soap. Currently employing only 26 workers, our Africa Partner will grow into a larger operating business and our products will be distributed regionally. In the near term, additional supply aggregation from neighboring country will be pursued while 1000 new trees are being planted. The government of Rwanda is supporting this project by provision of avocado seedlings and the project includes scaling the business to acquire the grafted certified avocado trees, set up an irrigation system, build a cold-room/pack shed and farm equipment for which Century Green is raising additional investment of $1.5 million to set up an 80 ha of avocado plantation made up of four blocks measuring 20ha each.
Project Location: Rwanda
Projected Cost: $2M
Aquaculture and Fish Processing
This fish farm venture is focused on the following:
On the social level, the project creates several jobs for young people and contributes to the fight against unemployment. The project contributes to environmental sanitation by collecting and recycling plastic bottles to build the floating fish cages. The project provides households with fresh fish, including improved protein intake in consumption. The government of Cameroon has taken a series of measures to encourage local production and to considerably reduce fish imports (and other staple products) in the medium term. Our strategic alliance with the local Partner will help achieve this goal and preserve the environment while creating value. Secondly, under our Joint Venture/SPV agreement, a $70M second phase farm development will comprise indoor aquaculture and aquaponics hoop-house facilities, including fish feed and produce processing.
Project Location: Yaoundé, Cameroon
Project Cost: Phase 1 - $6.1M; Phase 2 - $90M
Goat Aggregation and Meat Processing
Century Green is partnering with a 5-yr old SME based in Zambia. Our project comprises strategic, phased development over the period 2021 – 2026, toward effectively operationalizing a new slaughterhouse, buying off the property currently housing the processing facility owned by our Africa Partner and upgrading it to be ready for global exports, growing the cold chain and distribution capacity, scaling up the fast foods lines (Meat Xpress, BillyBurgers, and Pizzagoat Africa), as well as improving the supply chain by setting up goat aggregation centers and breeding farms in targeted rural communities across Zambia.
The local partner currently purchases and processes over 5,000 goats from over 400 smallholder farmers. This project will scale operations in the following business segments:
Project Location: Lusaka, Zambia
Project Cost: $6M
Banana and Sorghum Agro-processing
The project involves milling cereals and dry fruits to produce nutritious pre-cooked and fortified composite flours for overall household consumption and specifically for children. Our Africa Partner has, for the last six years, successfully processed and marketed two self-formulated brands of porridge flours. This began with processing of bananas into flour. It evolved to processing various pre-cooked porridge flour blends, incorporating multiple grains, including sorghum as substrates, to our expanded market offering. This project has the strategic focus to contribute towards developing a strong smallholder farmer community and provide quality, nutritious foods to the general public at an affordable price. This project will expand the supply chain to reach 5,000 farmers, implementing climate-smart practices to also produce sorghum for this scaling. The current plant utilization is at 33%. The first phase, $2M project will scale it to 69% to meet market demand in the near term. Farmland has been secured for developing an integrated farm, whereby supply chain, quantity and quality of sorghum, banana, and other crops can be assured.
Project Location: Nairobi, Kenya
Project Cost: $55M
Kwandebele Agriculture Academy
Kwandebele Agriculture Academy is a 1,400-hectare agricultural project by Petrusville and the Manala Mgibe Royal House Organization. This Organization has issued a Design-Build contract Agreement to The McMeadoy Group, Ltd., an advisory firm to Century Green, to design and construct an agricultural academy as part of an integrated farm project. Century Green Consortium through the McMeadoy Group Ltd. is to develop the integrated farm, and source funds for the farming and food processing projects. Century Green is also evaluating a commercial-size RAS indoor aquaculture plant for the site.
Project Location: Mpumalanga, South Africa
Project Cost: $150M