CREATING
IMPACT
With its formidable track record in agribusiness, Amadlelo Agri brings compelling experience, know-how and resources to its investment interests.
These are packaged into six services:
- Operator
As an operator of a project, Amadlelo Agri offers:
- The ability to deploy experienced managers
- Bring resources to the project, for example, like working capital requirements
- Provide strong stakeholder management and mobilise resources
- The ability to aggregate and exploit economies of scale for the benefit of the partners.
- Advisory and project management capability
Amadlelo Agri’s insight in this area translate into
- Demonstrated capacity to initiate, conceptualize and implement agribusiness projects
- Advisory and project packaging expertise
- Monitoring and evaluation, with a focus on impact assessments
- Training and skills transfer
- Mentorship and coaching backed by a network of successful commercial dairy farmers
- On the job training and skills transfer
- Learnerships – and a bias towards young people
- Back-office support
- Bookkeeping and accounting support
- Benchmarking – networks and database linkage to over 100 farmers through ACS
- Expansive and integrated Human Resource Management support
- Market access
- Aggregation and market access facilitation
- Value chain integration – enabled all Farms to be part of a responsible business processing company
- Investment management
- Experience in appreciating value and managing community assets
- ±R500m under management.
We are a corporate steward who enables transformation.
Its ownership structure comprises four groups:
- Amadlelo Milk Producers Investment Company which includes about 50 commercial farmers from KwaZulu-Natal and the Eastern Cape
- Vuwa Investments which is a 100% black-owned investment company
- Amadlelo Empowerment Trust which represents all workers of AMPIC members
- Tulsacap which is a group of black professionals and business people that have pooled investment resources in Amadlelo.
MORE ABOUT US
“We invest our acumen, wealth and resources into profitable and inclusive partnerships.”
For over a decade, the collaborative efforts of Amadlelo Agri’s has been at the forefront of transforming the dairy industry and unlocking the land potential of black communities in the Eastern Cape and KwaZulu-Natal.
Today, Amadleo Agri has expanded its footprint within the agricultural sector to include fruits, livestock (piggery) and agro-processing and is involved in nine projects as an operator, investor or both.
It has also pioneered other milestones which are indicative of the success of Amadlelo Agri has enjoyed in South Africa’s agricultural sector:
- Amadlelo Agri helped establish the first dairy enterprise. This was achieved through a collaboration with the Eastern Cape government and a partnership with the University of Fort Hare.
- Amadlelo Agri’s tried-and-tested model has been replicated and is being used in five dairy enterprises and operates in rural areas and on communal land.
- Testament to its robust relationship-building and trust ethos, Amadlelo Agri continues to leverage successful rural community partnerships, inclusive of a dynamic network of successful commercial farmers.
Our
Vision
An inclusive prosperous future through sustainable and profitable agribusinesses
Our
Mission
Position Amadlelo Agri as a preferred empowered company that unlocks latent agricultural assets and expands existing capacity into profitable and sustainable agribusiness, through mutually beneficial partnerships and long-term joint ventures.