Agribusiness
At Ginger SOFRECO, we strive to deliver capacity enhancement and quality assistance to our clients, wherever they are in the value chain: farmers, breeders, intermediaries, processors, wholesalers and retailers including their professional organisations and representations.
Our services
Value chain upgrading and management
Value chain upgrading and management
Viable and sustainable productions of agricultural goods are key elements for the design of a solid business model well integrated in the value chain.
Whatever your objectives or commodities, we deliver dedicated services to secure and develop your raw material supplies to optimize your production.
Our range of service includes:
- Sourcing analysis
- Baseline of production
- Identification of contract farming strategy
- Evaluation of assets and irrigation systems,
- Development and improvement of production and processing techniques
- Need assessment, definition and provision of capacity building
- Technical assistance, audits of performance of organisation, systems and production facilities
- Marketing and commercialisation studies: value chain analysis, products certifications, market studies
- Business advisory services
Feasibility studies
Feasibility studies
Starting from grassroots and raw materials, we provide dedicated services to study and develop your projects.
We support you during the entire cycle of your project to take the right investment decision and to optimize its execution.
- Project appraisal, scoping studies
- Estimation of project costs (capital and operating costs)
- Technical and financial feasibility studies
- Market studies, marketing mix definition
- Environmental and social impact assessment, management plan and monitoring
- Land acquisition and resettlement plan
- Organisation of production (direct or through smallholders schemes)
Project Management Consultancy
Project Management Consultancy
We assist our clients in developing and executing their projects towards operation.
- Engineering
- Scheduling and project controls
- Supervision of construction of agribusiness facilities
- Procurement and commissioning
- Contract management
- Technical assistance to operations
Lender’s Engineer
Lender’s Engineer
Thanks to our wide experience, we assist financial institutions to ensure cost controlled implementation of projects:
- Review of the project underlying assumptions
- Review of the project business plan and financial model
- Approval of loan disbursements and verification of the use of funds received from the lenders
- Monitoring of construction
- Monitoring of production during loan-life period
Our projects
Ginger SOFRECO provided technical expertise for the analysis of an investment project in tropical tree crops in West Africa.
Services included:
- Description of practices for the purchase of raw materials, equity and sustainability analysis
- Assisting the client in evaluating the business plans
- Analysis of an outgrowers’ project and formulation of recommendations if necessary
Ginger SOFRECO realized a technical and financial evaluation with the objective of determining the whole economic value of assets including buildings, factories, production equipment (ginning chain equipment, handling equipment, factory rolling stock and other equipment, spare part stocks and consumables).
The whole asset included on ten factories.
Ginger SOFRECO realized an analysis of the economic environment for agricultural investment in Mauritania to develop projects in the sectors of livestock farming, slaughter and red meat processing. Services included:
- Regional market study on red meat
- Proposal of investment projects
- Technical and financial study of the project selected by the client
- Search for partners to co-invest with the client
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