Agriculture and agribusiness
Organised production for a market that needs it.
The agriculture arm of the group: commercial farming, post-harvest control and structured supply into domestic and regional food markets, built around aligned smallholder programmes.
Onyx Farming
The gap is organisation, not land
Mozambique has arable land, water and a region around it that imports food. What the market lacks is organised production: consistent volumes, controlled quality, storage that prevents post-harvest loss and delivery a buyer can plan against.
Onyx Farming is built against that gap. The measure of the division is not hectares held; it is contracted volume delivered on time, season after season.
Anchors the group in productive land and food security, diversifies group cash flow away from minerals cycles and creates rural employment where the group operates.
How the division works
Production discipline first
Yield, input control and husbandry standards come before land expansion. A smaller operation that delivers beats a larger one that promises.
Own the post-harvest chain
Most agricultural value in the region is lost after the crop is out of the ground. Storage, handling and grading are treated as core operations, not afterthoughts.
Grow with smallholders
Outgrower programmes around the core operation raise local incomes and secure volume, with inputs, standards and buying commitments flowing both ways.
What Onyx Farming does
Commercial cultivation
Group-operated production of staple and horticultural crops, maize, beans, soya and vegetables, expanded season by season as delivery is proven.
Post-harvest and processing
Cleaning, drying, grading and bagged storage ahead of dispatch, so parcels arrive to specification rather than as field product.
Outgrower programmes
Structured smallholder partnerships around the core operation: inputs and agronomic standards provided, harvest volumes bought on committed terms.
Contracted market supply
Planned volumes into wholesalers, processors and institutional buyers in Mozambique and neighbouring markets.
Who it serves
Food buyers
Processors, wholesalers and institutional buyers that need volumes they can plan against.
Rural communities
Smallholders and workers around group operations, engaged as partners and employees.
Agri partners
Input suppliers, equipment providers and development programmes co-investing in production.
Working together
How an engagement starts
Supply inquiry
Crop, volume, specification and delivery window on the table first.
Season planning
Production and outgrower volumes committed against the buyer's calendar.
Contracted delivery
Graded, documented supply, with performance reviewed each season.