Federal agencies. Development banks. International agricultural research.
ZOGA Agro-Allied is structured in partnership with Nigerian federal agencies, the Bank of Industry, and international research institutions. The operating brief is food security and cross-border African trade — anchored in Nigerian production.
A cassava value chain structured against Nigeria's food-security agenda — with federal research and development-finance partners aligned from the start.
ZOGA Agro-Allied is not a speculative agribusiness venture. It is structured — deliberately, from the outset — as a partnership between a private operator, Nigerian federal agencies, development-finance institutions, and international agricultural research.
The Bank of Industry (BOI), Nigeria's oldest and largest development finance institution, anchors the finance side of the chain. BOI participation shapes how producer credit, processing-facility CAPEX, and working-capital facilities are structured — and aligns the operation with Nigeria's domestic industrial-policy priorities.
On the research and technical side, ZOGA Agro-Allied partners with the Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Sciences (CATAS) — one of the world's leading institutions on tropical root-crop agronomy and cassava cultivar development. CATAS collaboration informs seed and varietal programmes, agronomic training for smallholders, and the engineering specification of primary-processing facilities.
Federal alignment runs through the Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security, the Federal Ministry of Industry, Trade and Investment, and related agencies — ensuring that cassava development is positioned against Nigeria's food-security agenda and the African Continental Free Trade Area.
Integrated with ZOGA Capital on project finance, and with the Queen Zaynab Foundation on rural programming.
Project finance — Capital-markets participation, DFI co-financing, and long-dated offtake financing are arranged with ZOGA Capital, the group's investment and advisory arm.
Rural programming — Non-commercial rural-development programming, women-farmer support, and humanitarian partnerships coordinate with the Queen Zaynab Foundation, which has run rural programmes across Nigeria since 2016.
Offtake & partnership enquiries — Routed through the single ZOGA Holdings group office in Abuja.