Lyon Agro Ltd
Lyon Agro operates a vertically integrated soybean and shea supply chain in Northern Ghana, connecting registered smallholder farmers directly to global export markets. The company manages the entire chain—from GPS-mapped, EUDR-screened farm plots through in-country cleaning, sorting, and processing into soybean meal, oil, and shea butter—while providing farmers with credit, inputs, training, and machinery. Every lot carries a traceability record from farmgate to finished export, with premiums paid directly at the point of sale, including to women wild-collectors.
- Agriculture Technology
Funding
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Product
Problem
Agricultural supply chains in West Africa are fragmented across multiple intermediaries, causing traceability records to break at each handoff and origin to become unknown past the last trader. Farmers are often left to fund inputs alone at high informal interest rates, while the exporter carries all origin risk and the farmer retains the least value.
Solution
Lyon Agro connects farmers, procurement, local processing, and global markets through one traceable operating system that keeps more value at source. The company buys directly from registered farmers, links every purchase to GPS-mapped, EUDR-screened plots, and maintains transparent purchasing and weight records. It backs farmers with credit, certified inputs, training, and machinery, while performing cleaning, sorting, and processing in Ghana—producing soybean meal, soybean oil, shea nuts, and shea butter. The same plot-level traceability record accompanies the crop from farmgate through processing to finished export, allowing buyers to source with provable origin and stable quality. By owning the entire chain, Lyon Agro eliminates broken handoffs and ensures a price that actually reaches the farmer.
Target Audience
Primary customers are global buyers of soybean, soybean meal, soybean oil, shea nuts, and shea butter who require EUDR-compliant, fully traceable agricultural commodities with verified origin.
Features
- Direct purchasing from registered smallholder farmers with every lot mapped to GPS-located, EUDR-screened plots
- In-house processing capabilities for soybean meal, soybean oil, and shea butter, retaining value in Ghana
- Full traceability record maintained from farmer registration through purchase, transformation, and export
- Financial support programs providing farmers access to credit, certified inputs, training, and machinery
- Premium payments made directly at the point of sale, including to women wild-collectors in partner communities
- Cleaned, sorted, and processed products shipped with data sheets and origin records intact