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Agricultural Supply

Nigerian agricultural commodities, sourced to specification.

ORIGEN works with farmers, aggregators, processors and agricultural suppliers across Nigeria to give buyers reliable access to supply, across cocoa, oil palm, cashew, sesame, soybeans and legumes.
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Cocoa trees heavy with ripe yellow and orange pods on a Nigerian farm
A farmer holding a ripe cocoa pod above a green valley

Growing regions

Ondo · Osun · Ogun · Ekiti · Oyo · Cross River

Season

Main crop Oct – Mar · Light crop May – Aug

Dried Nigerian cocoa beans

Cocoa

Nigeria is one of the world's leading cocoa producers, with a cocoa belt that runs from Ondo and Osun through Ogun, Ekiti, Oyo and Cross River. ORIGEN works with farmers, cooperatives and aggregators across these regions to put together lots that match the specification you send us, not just whatever happens to be available.

Dried cocoa beans

Fermented and sun-dried, graded to buyer specification.

Traceable lots

Batch-identified from supplier and region through to shipment.

Sample lots

Pre-contract samples for evaluation and laboratory testing.

  • Cocoa trees heavy with ripe yellow and orange pods on a Nigerian farm
    Ripe pods on the tree
  • Women spreading cocoa beans to sun-dry on a farm
    Sun-drying the beans
  • Two ORIGEN field agents in branded uniforms on a plantation
    Our field team

Your requirements can include

  • Moisture
  • Fermentation
  • Bean count
  • Defect tolerance
  • Mould tolerance
  • Foreign matter
  • Packaging
  • Quantity
  • Batch identification
  • Traceability
  • Testing and inspection
Request CocoaQuality & traceability
Red palm oil pouring into a bowl beside ripe oil-palm fruit

Growing regions

Edo · Delta · Imo · Abia · Akwa Ibom · Cross River · Ondo

Season

Year-round, with peak harvest Feb – May

Palm kernel & palm-derived commodities

Oil Palm

Oil palm is native to West Africa and grown across southern Nigeria. ORIGEN works across the oil-palm value chain, starting with palm kernel and extending to other palm-derived commodities as verified buyer demand and reliable supply allow.

Palm kernel

Cleaned and dried kernels, graded and bagged to specification.

Palm-derived commodities

Other oil-palm products, depending on your requirements and available supply.

Recurring supply

Monthly, quarterly or long-term supply programmes.

  • Fresh oil-palm fruit bunches arriving at a mill
    Fresh fruit bunches
  • Stainless-steel palm oil processing tanks in a mill
    Milling & processing
  • Halved oil-palm fruit showing the kernels, beside a bottle of palm oil
    Kernels & palm oil

Your requirements can include

  • Product type
  • Grade
  • Moisture
  • Cleanliness
  • Foreign matter
  • Quantity
  • Packaging
  • Batch requirements
  • Traceability
  • Delivery requirements
Request Oil PalmQuality & traceability
Cashew tree laden with ripe red and yellow cashew apples, each with its nut hanging below

Growing regions

Kogi · Oyo · Kwara · Enugu · Benue · Ogun · Niger

Season

Harvest Feb – May · Export Mar – Aug

Raw cashew nuts (RCN)

Cashew

Nigeria is one of the world's five largest cashew producers, with orchards across Kogi, Oyo, Kwara, Enugu and Benue. ORIGEN aggregates raw cashew nuts from farmers and buying agents, cut-tests every lot for kernel outturn (KOR), nut count and moisture, and prepares them for processors at home and abroad.

Raw cashew nuts

In-shell, sun-dried nuts, cut-tested for KOR and nut count.

Cashew kernels

Graded kernels (W240, W320 and others) from Nigerian processors, on request.

Seasonal programmes

Contracted volumes across the February – May harvest.

  • Close-up of cashew apples with the raw nuts attached
    Cashew apples and nuts
  • Three women in bright yellow and red outfits seated beneath hanging bunches of bananas at a fruit stall
    From Nigerian markets
  • Two ORIGEN field agents in branded uniforms on a plantation
    Our field team

Your requirements can include

  • Kernel outturn (KOR)
  • Nut count per kg
  • Moisture
  • Defective nuts
  • Foreign matter
  • Packaging
  • Quantity
  • Batch identification
  • Traceability
  • Testing and inspection
Request CashewQuality & traceability
Tall sesame plant in flower with green seed pods along the stem

Growing regions

Nasarawa · Benue · Jigawa · Kano · Katsina · Kogi · Taraba

Season

Harvest Oct – Dec · Export Nov – Apr

Natural & hulled sesame seed

Sesame

Nigeria is one of the world's leading sesame exporters, with production centred in Nasarawa, Benue, Jigawa, Kano and Katsina. ORIGEN sources natural sesame from cooperatives and aggregators, arranges machine cleaning and sortexing to the purity you need, and coordinates residue testing for demanding markets such as Japan and the EU.

Natural sesame seed

White or mixed seed, cleaned to 98 – 99.95% purity.

Hulled sesame

Dehulled white seed, sourced on request.

Residue-tested lots

Pesticide-residue testing for strict import markets.

  • Sesame flowers and ripening seed pods
    Flowers and seed pods
  • Three women in bright yellow and red outfits seated beneath hanging bunches of bananas at a fruit stall
    From Nigerian markets
  • Two ORIGEN field agents in branded uniforms on a plantation
    Our field team

Your requirements can include

  • Purity
  • Colour
  • Oil content
  • Free fatty acid (FFA)
  • Moisture
  • Pesticide residues (MRLs)
  • Foreign matter
  • Packaging
  • Quantity
  • Traceability
Request SesameQuality & traceability
Green soybean pods on the plant

Growing regions

Benue · Kaduna · Niger · Nasarawa · Plateau · Kwara

Season

Harvest Oct – Dec

Soybeans for feed & processing

Soybeans

Nigeria grows around 1.5 million tonnes of soybeans a year, mostly in Benue, Kaduna, Niger and Nasarawa, and most of it is crushed at home for poultry and fish feed. ORIGEN aggregates soybeans to your moisture, foreign-matter and protein requirements for delivery to Nigerian processors or for regional trade.

Soybeans

Cleaned and dried beans, bagged or in bulk.

Soybean meal & oil

Crush products from Nigerian processors, on request.

Recurring supply

Monthly or seasonal programmes for feed and food processors.

  • Close-up of soybean pods
    Pods on the plant
  • Three women in bright yellow and red outfits seated beneath hanging bunches of bananas at a fruit stall
    From Nigerian markets
  • Two ORIGEN field agents in branded uniforms on a plantation
    Our field team

Your requirements can include

  • Moisture
  • Foreign matter
  • Split and damaged beans
  • Protein content
  • Oil content
  • Packaging
  • Quantity
  • Delivery requirements
Request SoybeansQuality & traceability
Grid of dried beans, lentils, peas, chickpeas and soybeans

Growing regions

Kano · Katsina · Borno · Jigawa · Bauchi · Zamfara · Niger

Season

Harvest Sep – Dec

Cowpea & groundnut

Legumes

Nigeria is the world's largest producer of cowpea and one of the top groundnut producers, with supply concentrated in Kano, Katsina, Borno, Jigawa and Bauchi. ORIGEN sources cleaned cowpea and shelled groundnuts for regional and international buyers, with residue and aflatoxin testing arranged to suit the destination market.

Cowpea (dried beans)

White, brown (Oloyin) and black-eyed varieties, cleaned and sorted.

Groundnuts

In-shell or shelled hand-picked kernels, aflatoxin-tested.

Groundnut oil & cake

From Nigerian processors, on request.

  • Dried chickpeas and soybeans
    Dried pulses
  • Three women in bright yellow and red outfits seated beneath hanging bunches of bananas at a fruit stall
    From Nigerian markets
  • Two ORIGEN field agents in branded uniforms on a plantation
    Our field team

Your requirements can include

  • Variety
  • Moisture
  • Foreign matter
  • Broken and damaged grains
  • Weevil damage
  • Aflatoxin (groundnut)
  • Pesticide residues
  • Packaging
  • Quantity
  • Traceability
Request LegumesQuality & traceability

Looking for something else?

Our sourcing network grows with verified buyer demand.

Don't send us a generic enquiry. Give us your exact purchasing requirements. Our sourcing team will review the request and work out how we can meet it from available Nigerian supply.

Tell Us What You Need

Sourcing brief

RFQ-2026-0001 · Example

New
Commodity
Cocoa beans, properly fermented
Quantity
20 tonnes
Moisture
≤ 7%
Mould
No visible mould
Defects
Defined tolerance
Packaging
Jute bags, 62.5 kg
Traceability
Batch-level
Delivery
CIF Toronto · Oct 2026
Lab testingPre-shipment inspectionPhytosanitaryCertificate of Origin

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