About Us
An integrated agribusiness and agricultural technology company
Banjoko Farm Tech Services combines modern agricultural production, intelligent farming technologies and sustainable agribusiness solutions to help build a more productive agricultural future for Africa.
Company overview
Banjoko Farm Tech Services is an integrated agribusiness and agricultural technology company being established in Nigeria. The business is structured in three divisions: commercial agricultural production, agricultural processing and distribution, and agricultural technology.
The company is at pre-development stage. Its site at Egbeda, Ibadan, Oyo State, is in planning, and the development is being taken forward in controlled phases with qualified Nigerian surveyors, solicitors, engineers and agricultural professionals engaged for the decisions that properly belong to them.
The business is owned by its founder, who oversees the company from the United Kingdom, with a professional management team operating the Nigerian business. That structure is a deliberate part of how the company is being designed: remote ownership raises the value of measurement, reporting and segregated financial authority from a convenience to a requirement, and the technology division exists partly to serve it.
Strategy
The initial site is approximately two acres. That is enough to establish a credible commercial operation and to prove the technology, and it is not enough to scale production indefinitely. The strategy follows from that arithmetic: build a tight, efficient, well-instrumented farm; capture margin through processing and cold storage rather than selling at the farm gate; and grow the technology division, which is the one part of the business that can scale without more land.
Development is sequenced to protect working capital. Activities that generate cash earliest are established first, and the remainder follow as revenue allows rather than being started simultaneously on borrowed optimism.
Nigerian agricultural development
Nigeria imports food it is capable of growing, and loses a significant share of what it does grow between harvest and market. Those are problems of infrastructure, cold chain, measurement and market access more than problems of effort.
Banjoko Farm Tech Services is positioned against that: production that is measured rather than estimated, processing and cold storage that reduce loss and raise realised price, and technology that other producers can use. The long-term ambition is to serve customers across Nigeria and, over time, elsewhere in Africa.
Values
How we intend to operate
These are working commitments rather than slogans — each one has a consequence for how the business is run.
Measure, then decide
Production decisions follow from recorded data — yield, feed conversion, mortality, water and power consumption — not from habit or assumption.
Say what is true
We describe what is planned as planned and what is operating as operating. A buyer who audits us should find the site understated rather than overstated.
Build for the conditions
Systems are designed for intermittent power, variable connectivity, heat, dust and humidity, because that is the environment they have to work in.
Efficiency as strategy
On a constrained site, output per square metre and per litre of water is what makes the operation commercially viable at all.
Food quality is non-negotiable
Washing, grading, cold-chain handling and traceable records, because commercial buyers specify them and consumers deserve them.
Develop local capability
The business is operated by a Nigerian management team, and the technology is built for Nigerian and African agriculture rather than imported wholesale.