If you aggregate produce from smallholder farmers and sell to retail, food service, or government feeding schemes, your supply is only as consistent as the farms behind it. RegenZ partners with aggregators across Southern Africa to put the right inputs, training, and monitoring in place at farm level. Three-year programmes, measurable outcomes.
Most aggregators we speak to do not have a volume problem. They have a consistency problem. The reason produce gets rejected at the gate is rarely tonnage. It is size, blemish, shelf life, and timing. All four trace back to the soil and to what is happening on the farm in the weeks before harvest.
Different farmers, different inputs, different soil, different produce. The cohort delivers volume but the cohort does not deliver consistency.
Rejections, downgrades, and write-offs eat margin and trust. The cause is usually farm-side, not aggregation-side.
Retail and food-service buyers ask harder questions every year. You need a story you can fully back with data from the soil up.
We do not parachute in. We sign an MOU with you and your growing groups, set goals together, and run a structured programme over three seasons. Year one proves the input pack and the agronomic protocols on the ground. Year two scales what worked. Year three locks it in as standard practice.
We work with development partners and aggregators across South Africa and SADC. Existing partnerships span KwaZulu-Natal, the Eastern Cape, the Western Cape, and beyond.
Temong manages outgrowers in the Limpopo and Mpumalanga region to grow chillis and herbs for their end buyers. Temong co-owns a steam sterilizing facility in Gauteng.
A KwaZulu-Natal development partner working with smallholder vegetable and grain growers. We provide the input pack and the agronomy.
An Eastern Cape aggregator and processor that buys from RegenZ-supported smallholder farmers and supplies into local markets.
ELI both runs growing groups and aggregates produce. We support both sides: input pack and agronomic support to the farmers, and supply consistency for the aggregation.
When the input and the agronomy line up, the produce that arrives at your gate looks and behaves differently. Better soil produces better food. We have seen it consistently enough to commit to it as our position.
We have run programmes from a single growing group of 10 farmers up to multi-province cohorts. A first-year pilot of 20 - 30 farmers is a comfortable starting point.
The funding model varies by partnership. In CSI-funded programmes, the funder typically pays for inputs, training, and monitoring. In commercially driven aggregator partnerships, costs are split or built into the off-take pricing. We will design the model with you.
Yes. We collect plot-level data through the season and produce season-end and year-end reports against agreed indicators. If you need to report to your funders or retail buyers against specific metrics, tell us upfront and we will design for that.
Vegetables, potatoes, hemp, and grains. The Beyond Soil Life range is biology-led so it works across crops. We tailor the input pack to each crop and region.
South Africa primarily, with active work in the Eastern Cape, KwaZulu-Natal, and the Western Cape. We work across SADC where the partnership and the logistics make sense.
Send us a WhatsApp, or open the contact form. We respond within a working day. Tell us a little about the farmers you work with, the crops you aggregate, and the buyers you supply, and we will come back with a first-call-fit assessment.
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