ORIGIN Nine producing states
Capability 01
Origination
Buying is the quality decision. By the time a commodity reaches an open market it has been blended, re-bagged and re-priced, and its history is gone. Our field agents buy at farmgate in the producing states, against a register of growers we have worked with across seasons.
Field teams across nine producing states in the north and middle belt.
Grower name, community, plot and season-by-season delivery history.
Published farmgate price boards, settled same-day on delivery.
Seed, bagging and drying mats issued pre-season against harvest.
LINE Sorted to contract grade
Capability 02
Processing
A lot arrives from the farm and leaves as a contract grade. Intake weighing and moisture check, mechanical drying where the crop needs it, destoning, de-hulling on the lines that call for it, sortex or hand sorting, then grading and bagging to the packing spec.
Weighbridge, moisture probe and visual grade at the gate; rejected loads go back.
Mechanical and raised-rack drying to bring moisture under contract ceiling.
Destoning, de-stemming, air separation and magnetic pass.
Optical sortex for oilseeds; supervised hand sorting for calyx and split ginger.
Net-weighed, stitched, stencilled and stacked by lot number.
QA Authority to stop a lot
Capability 03
Quality assurance
Quality assurance sits outside the sales line and can stop a lot leaving the yard. Samples are drawn on a fixed pattern at intake, after processing and at stuffing, and the certificate of analysis is issued against the lot that actually ships — never against a representative sample from another consignment.
Fixed-pattern draw at intake, post-process and at container stuffing.
Moisture, purity, foreign matter, admixture, bean and nut counts, cut tests.
SGS, Bureau Veritas or Cotecna inspection on buyer’s instruction and account.
Tested where the destination market sets a limit; results issued with the CoA.
Sealed retention samples held against every shipped lot for the contract period.
APAPA Direct carrier booking
Capability 04
Logistics & documentation
Most claims are documentary, not agricultural. We prepare the full export set in-house, book freight directly with the line, supervise stuffing, and route documents to your bank against the instrument agreed in the contract.
Apapa and Tin Can Island, Lagos; Onne and Calabar for eastern-belt cargo.
Booked directly with the carrier; no undisclosed forwarder margin.
Supervised, tallied and photographed; seal number recorded on the documents.
Invoice, packing list, bill of lading, Certificate of Origin, NAQS phytosanitary, CoA, fumigation and weight note.
L/C at sight, cash against documents, or agreed terms for repeat counterparties.
Standards
The regimes we work to.
Registrations and certificates are issued per company and per shipment. We will send current copies with any first quotation rather than ask you to take a logo on a website as evidence.
Due diligence
Ask us for the documents before you ask us for a price.
Company registration, NEPC certificate, facility photographs, references from current counterparties — all of it goes out on request.