Agricultural infrastructure on titled African land
Agric-Dev is an agricultural investment group. We acquire and hold productive land in Sub-Saharan Africa, then build the regulated infrastructure that turns it into an asset institutions can own. We do not cultivate. Licensed operators work the ground under contract, and we publish our licence register in full, including the permissions not yet obtained.
The estate
| Fact | Detail |
|---|---|
| Name | Ngandu Estate |
| Where | Kwilu-Ngongo, Mbanza-Ngungu territory, Kongo Central, Democratic Republic of Congo. 5°35′S, 14°42′E. Eight kilometres from the road corridor to the Port of Matadi. |
| Size | 1,800 acres of titled land |
| Tenure | Customary clan title held by the Kalunga ni Mbamba clan for generations; managed under contract by Ngandu Estate Management. Registration of a formal concession is part of the programme and is stated as work to be done. |
| Water | Rivers on the estate. Hydrogeological survey commissioned before construction. |
| Campus | Fifty hectares (500,000 square metres) under development as a licensed campus for medicinal cultivation, built to GACP and designed for the EU-GMP pathway. |
How the model works
- Agric-Dev holds the land and builds the regulated infrastructure on it: roads, water, fencing, storage, records.
- Licensed operators cultivate under contract, to the GACP standard, for export. The licence sits with the operator and the register says so.
- Contracted demand precedes production. Licensed importers in regulated markets sign before a seed goes in. No crop is planted against hope.
- Holders own square metres of the campus and share in what the estate earns from the operators. One unit is one square metre: a fixed area of licensed ground, not a share of a crop.
Standing
A licence is either held or it is not. The register on the homepage states, document by document, what is held by the licensed operator, what is in progress and what has not yet been obtained. As of September 2026 the cultivation and import authorisations are held by the operator, processing authorisation is in progress, and the export authorisation is not yet obtained. No export revenue is assumed before it is in hand.
Why Kongo Central
A port in the province, a working road corridor, rivers on the ground, twelve hours of daylight every day of the year and no heating season. These are properties of latitude and geography, not operational efficiencies. The cost advantage still has to be converted through certification, which is why the campus is built to the standard from the first drawing.
Glossary
| Term | Meaning |
|---|---|
| GACP | Good Agricultural and Collection Practice. The EU cultivation standard for medicinal plant material, audited on site. |
| EU-GMP | Good Manufacturing Practice, Part II. The pharmaceutical standard for active substances sold into the EU. A phase-two objective. |
| INCB | International Narcotics Control Board, Vienna. Producing countries file annual estimates under the 1961 Convention and report shipments through I2ES. |
| ACOREP | Autorité Congolaise de Réglementation Pharmaceutique, the DRC's medicines regulator and competent authority. |
| Importer of record | The licensed party in the destination market that holds the import permit. Nothing ships without one. |
| Clan title | Customary land tenure held by a community. Registration of a concession makes the holding bankable and transferable. |
Access
Register interest on the homepage. There is no newsletter and no calls. Documentation follows in stages after verification: structure, estate, regulatory and reference first; programme, market and financial sections under undertaking; offering documents to eligible investors in permitted jurisdictions last.
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