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Almekora Agro is a facility under development. Product availability is shown per product.

Almekora Agro

Process

From farm to container

We are building a processing operation, not a trading desk. This is the chain we are constructing, in order. Where a step is not yet operational we mark it as planned rather than describing it as though it exists.

Every step below is currently planned.The facility is under development, so nothing on this page has yet been commissioned or run at commercial scale. We will replace these descriptions with photographs and confirmed equipment specifications as each stage comes online.

  1. 01

    Farmer sourcing

    Direct arrangements with farmer groups in the Chuadanga catchment, rather than open-market purchase through intermediaries. Traceability begins here — a lot must be attributable to a group.

    Planned
  2. 02

    Collection & grading

    Intake at the facility, weighed and graded against the product specification. Out-of-spec material is diverted rather than blended in.

    Planned
  3. 03

    Washing & sanitising

    Potable-water wash with a sanitising step to reduce initial microbial load before cutting.

    Planned
  4. 04

    Cutting & sizing

    Cut to the specified form — slice, dice, chip, flake — against a stated size tolerance.

    Planned
  5. 05

    Pre-treatment

    Blanching or other pre-treatment where the product requires it, for colour and enzyme control. Unsulphured by default; sulphuring only where a buyer specifies it.

    Planned
  6. 06

    Drying

    Cabinet air-drying against a controlled time and temperature profile per product. Equipment specification will be published here once selection is confirmed.

    Planned
  7. 07

    Moisture testing

    Every batch tested to the target moisture and water activity before it leaves the dryer.

    Planned
  8. 08

    Sorting & inspection

    Removal of off-colour, off-size and foreign material.

    Planned
  9. 09

    Metal detection

    In-line metal detection ahead of packing.

    Planned
  10. 10

    Packing

    Multi-layer barrier inner bags, cartoned to the agreed export configuration. Nitrogen flush or vacuum where the product and shelf-life target require it.

    Planned
  11. 11

    Storage

    Dry, temperature-controlled finished-goods storage with retained samples held per lot.

    Planned
  12. 12

    Documentation & stuffing

    Lot documentation assembled, certificate of analysis issued, container stuffed and sealed.

    Planned

Traceability

Lot back to farmer group

Traceability is a legal requirement for food sold into the EU, but it is also the thing that makes a supplier auditable. We are designing the lot system so that any finished carton can be traced back through packing, drying batch and intake to the farmer group that supplied the raw material.

That design decision is easier to make now, before the facility is built, than to retrofit afterwards — which is the main reason we are publishing it before we can demonstrate it.