The questions we are asked most, and the honest answers

Who cultivates at Ngandu?

Licensed operators, under contract, to the GACP standard. Agric-Dev holds the land and builds the regulated infrastructure. It does not cultivate and does not hold a cultivation licence in its own name.

Who holds the licences?

The licensed operator. The register on the homepage names each permission, who holds it and what stage it is at. As of September 2026 the Level 3 exploitation licence for cultivation and the import authorisation are held by the operator; processing authorisation is in progress; export authorisation is not yet obtained.

Who buys the output?

Licensed importers in regulated markets, under contract, before anything is planted. Contracted demand preceding production is a condition of the model. No counterparty is named until a contract is signed.

Where does the water come from?

Rivers on the estate. A hydrogeological survey of yield and quality is commissioned before construction and the campus is designed around what it finds.

When does anything ship?

After the export authorisation is issued by ACOREP against a buyer's import permit, reported through INCB. Not before. No export revenue is assumed until it is in hand.

What is a holding?

One unit is one square metre of the fifty-hectare licensed campus. A holding is a fixed area of licensed ground, mapped and measured. It is not a share of a crop and does not change with the harvest. Holders share in what the estate earns from the licensed operators under contract.

Is the land owned by Agric-Dev?

Ngandu is held under customary clan title by the Kalunga ni Mbamba clan and managed by Agric-Dev's estate company under contract. Registration of a formal concession with the Ministry of Land Affairs is part of the programme and is stated as work to be done rather than implied as complete.

Why the Democratic Republic of Congo, and why Kongo Central?

Title, water, a road corridor and a port in the same province, on the equator: twelve hours of daylight every day and no heating season. Medicinal cultivation has been regulated in the DRC since 2021 under Ministerial Order No. 1250/CAB/MIN/SPHP/038/DCA/CPh/2022, with ACOREP as competent authority.

What is the price of a square metre, and what does it return?

Those figures live in the offering documents, which are released to eligible investors in permitted jurisdictions after verification. Agric-Dev publishes no yield, price or return figures publicly.

How long will this take?

Years, not months. Survey and title registration, permits and construction, first planting under licence, the GACP audit, third-party release of every batch, then the first shipment. It is a programme, not a launch, and no stage is skipped to make a date.

How do I learn more?

Register interest at agric-dev.com. There is no newsletter and no calls. Verification follows, then the data room opens in stages.

Is this an offer?

No. Nothing on the website or in Agric-Dev's public communications is an offer to sell or a solicitation of an offer to buy any security or interest. Participation is limited to eligible investors in permitted jurisdictions and may only be made through formal offering materials.